Building Altars to Rome

Throughout Rome, on street corners and in alleyways and under bridges, you can find small altars built to honor different saints. In this tradition, each apartment in the Rome Center was assigned the task of creating their own altar with "relics" collected from around the city during our stay in Rome. We were basically given free reign to make whatever type of altar we wanted, so after working all day yesterday assembling our altars, each apartment got to present their altar to the class.

The boys in Apartment 3 built a shrine to Totti, everyone's favorite AS Roma soccer player. They built the altar as a triumphal arch to commemorate his return to stardom following his leg injury this season.

The girls in Apartment 2 built a church dedicated to San Tempus Temporis, or the Saint of Time. Their church had 4 altars, each dedicated to a different artistic period, as well as a shrine to Mandie's obnoxious alarm clock.

The girls in Apartment 312 built a cemetery throughout their apartment in the style of the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, complete with a tribute to Nutella, a cloister on the balcony, and two pyramids built out of Fanta bottles and cereal boxes.

Complete descriptions of these altars and the histories behind them can be found on the altar link on this blog:
http://honorsinromewinter06altarprojects.blogspot.com/

Well, we're off to finish packing up all the stuff we've bought over the last three months! Anyone have an extra suitcase?...

- Nicole