Passenger only

You are on the passenger sit besides the driver and you are going through one of the longest road tunnels of the world, the St. Gotthard Tunnel (16.4 kilometres). You have a smartphone whose brand is an delicious fruit. What do you do?  Let’s shake the light! The smartphone has a long time of exposition. [...]

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Monos: discover Monasteries of Second Life

To celebrate its re-opening on a new sim, the Monastery presents some examples of other monasteries of Second Life.
Monastery derives from the Greek word “monos” which means “alone”. It denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace(s) of monastics, whether monks [...]

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Forum Romanum

The Roman Forum, sometimes known by its original Latin name of Forum Romanum, is located between the Palatine hill and the Capitoline hill of the city of Rome. In the foreground, the three columns are the remains of one of the older edifice in the area, the temple of Castor and Pollux, originally built in [...]

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Arch of Constantine

The Arch of Constantine (Italian: Arco di Costantino) is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected to commemorate Constantine I’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312.

Arch of Constantine

BUSIRI, Giovanni Battista, Rome: A View of the Forum, 1720
Oil on canvas, [...]

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Arch of Titus

The Arch of Titus has provided the general model for many of the triumphal arches erected since the 16th century.

The Arch of Titus is a marble triumphal arch located on the Via Sacra just to the south-east of the Forum in Rome. It was constructed by the emperor Domitian shortly to commemorate the capture of [...]

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Colosseum

The Colosseum is one of the well-preserved monument of the ancient Rome.

Colosseum
The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire.
Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction started between 70 and 72 [...]

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The Grand Tour stops at the Monastery

The Monastery opens traditionally an exhibition for the Valentine’s Day. This year, the title of the exhibition is “romantic. ruins paintings in Rom in 17th and 18th centuries”.
This exhibition is designed by Ulysse Alexandre, archaeologist. It presents some examples of paintings of archaelogical remains in Rom, made by painters in the 17th and 18th centuries. [...]

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Romantic

We are preparing a surprise for you in the Monastery for Valentine Day: an new exhibition intitled “Romantic”. This exhibition will be one of the attractions of CDS for the stop of the Grand Tour in CDS sims.

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Second Mirror: the newest exhibition of the Monastery

Virtual worlds are pixel worlds. Everything is made with informatic code. Some characteristics of the real world are not integrated in the algorithm, because they were forgetten or too complicate to calculate. For example, metal is not metal, but an image of metal. It is easy to give to this object the right color. But [...]

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?

The Monastery will explore the theme of the mirror in its next exhibition. There are several reasons to explore this thematic.
As the main sign of mankind is consciousness, that means being aware of self, the reflection of our image on a surface is like a materialisation of this consciousness. It is hard to say when [...]

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