Palestrina is a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about 35 kilometres east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon the ruins of the ancient city of Praeneste.
Staircase accessing the former Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
Ficoroni Cista
Terrace of Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
Barberini Palace
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Facade of St John Lateran, Rome, where Palestrina was musical director
Portrait of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 16th century
Palestrina, presenting his masses to Pope Julius III, 1554