Orcus Gardens of Bomarzo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus#mediaviewer/File:Bomarzo_parco_mostri_orco.jpg Orcus (Latin: Orcus) was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Italic and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. In the later tradition, he was conflated with Dis Pater, who was the Roman equivalent of Pluto. Dis Pater = Jupiter Gardens of Bomarzo Lazio, Italy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_Bomarzo The Sacro Bosco (Sacred Grove),[1] colloquially called Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri in Italian), also named Garden of Bomarzo, is a Manieristic monumental complex located in Bomarzo, in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, Italy.[2] The gardens were created during the 16th century.[3] They are composed out of a wood located at the bottom of a valley beneath the castle of Orsini, and populated by sculptures and small buildings among the natural vegetation. Lazio, Italy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazio Lazio (pronounced [ˈlatt͡sjo], Latin: Latium), sometimes referred to in English as Latium,[3] is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country. With about 5.7 million residents and a GDP of more than 170 billion euros, Lazio is the third most populated region of Italy, and has the second largest economy of the nation. Its capital is Rome, capital and largest city of Italy.
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