10 Comments Posted by Anais.

Good to see you again, mr Motts..

I've done some research, and I think this building could be the Neuropsychiatric hospital of [location information removed]

It looks like an office to me, with metal wardrobe like the ones I used to have at school. My guess is that the room was originally used for a totally differeny purpose, and then turned into an office.

Motts, where was this? Piemonte?

Ugh, why are windows different one side from the other??

How beautiful..

Little shrine slike this are quite common in northen Italy, sometimes you can even spot them in the middle of a city.

Well, I guess the plate could be marble, but the letters are made out of iron or another stone and then fixed upon the plate.. Some of the letters fell off, you can cleraly see it!

Ahahah :p

I studied latin and ancient greek in high school, here in Italy some schools offer these kind of subjects..

They were cabinets for the fire extinguishers devices; I use to have some of them at my school..

I'm out of practice with latin, but that seems to be a celebratory plate; in 1737 Carlo Emanuele III King of Sardinia married Elisabeth of Lorraine and for the event he ordered the construction of this monumental door.

More or less it reads:
"Carlo Emanuele III [the first and third I seems to be gone] king of Sardinia, who won gloriously the italian war, at marrying Elisabeth and befriending Lotharingia [ancient name for an area between Austria and Germany] embellishes the Carthusians home who was founded with the antique favor of the Savoy chaste, by the hand of benevolent supporter D. Brunoni"

Something like that..