Obelisco Lateranense
Obelisco Lateranense is a historic site, at a modelled elevation of 54 m. Colle Iano stands 938 m to the southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Battistero Lateranense, a attraction 0.1 miles away.
The story
The Lateran Obelisk (Italian: Obelisco Lateranense; Latin: Obeliscus Constantii) is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk in Italy. It originally weighed 413 tonnes (455 short tons), but after collapsing and being re-erected 4 metres (13 ft) shorter, now weighs around 300 tonnes (330 short tons). It is located in Rome, in the square across from the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran and the San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital. The obelisk was made around 1400 BC in Karnak, Egypt, during the reigns of Pharaohs Thutmose III and Thutmose IV. Roman Emperor Constantine I had it moved to Alexandria in the early 4th century AD, then Constantius II in AD 357 had it shipped to Rome and erected at the Circus Maximus. The obelisk collapsed and broke into pieces sometime after the Circus's abandonment in the 5th century and became buried. It was excavated and restored by Domenico Fontana in the late 1580s, and by the order of Pope Sixtus V was topped with a Christian cross and installed in its present location near the Lateran Palace.
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Wikidata Q645181, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 45.7 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Battistero Lateranense: 0.1 mi
- Scala Santa: 0.1 mi
- Aula Gotica: 0.3 mi
- Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme: 0.6 mi
- Chiesa di San Giovanni a Porta Latina: 0.7 mi
- Museo del Tesoro Lateranense: 0.1 mi
- Museo Storico della Liberazione: 0.2 mi
- Palazzo Merulana - Fondazione Elena e Claudio Cerasi: 0.2 mi
- Museo Vite di IMI: 0.2 mi
- San Giovanni: 0.3 mi
- Pozzo della Samaritana: 0.1 mi
- Monumento a San Francesco: 0.3 mi
- Il coniglio: 0.5 mi
- Mosaico del Cristo con due schiavi: 0.5 mi
- La lumaca: 0.5 mi
- Giardini di Via Sannio: 0.2 mi
- Giardino Mary ed Hasib Begum: 0.4 mi
- Giardini di Viale Carlo Felice: 0.4 mi
- Parco di Piazzale Metronio: 0.4 mi
- Parchetto Marcello Mastroianni: 0.5 mi
- Giardino Umberto Improta: 0.4 mi
- Chiostro di San Sisto Vecchio: 0.6 mi
- Piazza Camerino: 0.7 mi
- Villa Aldobrandini: 1.1 mi
- Giardino del Quirinale: 1.2 mi
- Acquedotto Neroniano: 0.5 mi
- Cisterna delle Sette Sale: 0.5 mi
- Thermae Traianae: 0.5 mi
- Mura serviane: 0.5 mi
- Paul P. Harris: 0.5 mi
- Celio: 0.5 mi
- Aventino: 1.3 mi
- Colle Vaticano: 3.0 mi
- Monte Ciocci: 3.6 mi
- Monte Mario: 3.8 mi
- Cascata fosso Marrana: 3.7 mi
- Cascata della Mola di Veio: 11.1 mi
- Cascata del fosso degli Olmetti: 11.3 mi
- Cascata di San Bartolomeo: 11.3 mi
- Pisciacavallo: 13.6 mi
- Le Palme: 11.7 mi
- Bau Beach: 16.8 mi
- Spiaggia dei gabbiani: 20.4 mi
- Malibù: 22.0 mi
- Spiaggia libera: 23.8 mi
- Parco Agricolo di Casal del Marmo: 6.7 mi
- Monumento Naturale Parco della Cellulosa: 7.7 mi
- Riserva Naturale della Marcigliana: 8.8 mi
- Monumento Naturale di Galeria Antica: 14.2 mi
- Oasi WWF di Macchiagrande: 15.2 mi
- Sorgente (non potabile): 12.5 mi
- Acqua Acetosa: 12.7 mi
- Fonte Levinosa: 21.5 mi
- Fonte di Virginio: 22.0 mi
- Fonte: 23.0 mi
- Rupe Tarpea: 1.2 mi
- Rupe del Parco Brin: 2.1 mi
- Rupe del Lotto 6: 2.2 mi
- Rupe sinistra delle Rocce di San Paolo: 2.3 mi
- Falesia Ciampino: 7.6 mi
- Lago Bullicante Ex Snia: 1.9 mi
- Area Picnic 1: 11.0 mi
- Area Picnic 2: 11.2 mi
- Area attrezzata Tuscolo: 11.8 mi
- Le Scampagnate di Sbardella Giuliano: 12.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.2 miles of Obelisco Lateranense. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colle Iano | SE 125° | 938 m | 14.6 mi |
| Monte Vescovo | SE 128° | 822 m | 14.8 mi |
| Monte Ara | SE 126° | 782 m | 14.0 mi |
| Monte Salomone | ESE 117° | 778 m | 13.4 mi |
| la Montagnola | ESE 117° | 736 m | 12.8 mi |
| Trinità SS in Algido | ESE 117° | 710 m | 13.8 mi |
| Colle Tondo | ESE 123° | 686 m | 14.1 mi |
| Monte Tuscolo | ESE 119° | 670 m | 12.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:15 | 17:45 | 18:22 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 20:07 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 15:57 | 16:42 |
Local time (Europe/Rome).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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