[Daily dose of Geography]^Apennine Kolos 🇮🇹steemCreated with Sketch.

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📌Apennine Kolos 🇮🇹

The incredible sculpture "Apennine Kolos" was carved at the end of the 16th century, and its author is the famous Italian artist Giambologna. This incredible artwork is 12 meters high, located in Tuscany, 12 km north of Florence in Demidoff Park and became the symbol of Apennine. Kolos was built at the request of Duke Francesco de Medici, who wanted to please his lovers, and ordered that the most beautiful garden that the world has ever seen was erected in her honor. He represents Atlas of Vergily's "Eneide" that presses the head of a beast that throws water out of the mouth into the pond. However, this statue hides an incredible secret in itself. Namely, inside Kolos there are several rooms decorated with crystals, coral, frescoes and pearls. Inside there are two fountains, and in the head of the sculpture there is a room in which there was a fireplace, and the smoke from it went through the nose of the sculpture.


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