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ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Porta Alchemica or alchemical door, or Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal, is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara marquis of Pietraforte (1614-1680) in his residence, located in the east of Rome on the Esquilino hill. Porta Alchemica is the only survivor of the five gates of the Palombara villa...According to a legend dated 1802 , a pilgrim "stibeum" (from Latin: stibium = antimony) was hosted in the villa for a night. The "pellegrino", identifiable with the alchemist Giustiniani Bono, stayed for a night in the gardens of the villa in search of a mysterious herb capable of producing gold, the next morning he was seen disappearing forever through the door, but left behind a few flakes of gold fruit of a successful alchemical transmutation, and a mysterious paper full of puzzles and magic symbols that would contain the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. .The marquis had engraved on the five gates of the villa Palombara and on the walls of the mansion, the content of the manuscript with symbols and riddles in the hope that one day someone would be able to understand them..The particular drawing on the pediment of Porta Alchemica, with the two triangles overlap and inscriptions in Latin, appears in a bookmark possessed by Berenger Saunière, who became the parish priest at Rennes-le-Château in 1885.

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ROME, ITALY - JUNE 03: Illustration of Rome; Italy on June 03, 2012..Porta Alchemica or alchemical door, or Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal, is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara marquis of Pietraforte (1614-1680) in his residence, located in the east of Rome on the Esquilino hill. Porta Alchemica is the only survivor of the five gates of the Palombara villa...According to a legend dated 1802 , a pilgrim "stibeum" (from Latin: stibium = antimony) was hosted in the villa for a night. The "pellegrino", identifiable with the alchemist Giustiniani Bono, stayed for a night in the gardens of the villa in search of a mysterious herb capable of producing gold, the next morning he was seen disappearing forever through the door, but left behind a few flakes of gold fruit of a successful alchemical transmutation, and a mysterious paper full of puzzles and magic symbols that would contain the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. .The marquis had engraved on the five gates of the villa Palombara and on the walls of the mansion, the content of the manuscript with symbols and riddles in the hope that one day someone would be able to understand them..The particular drawing on the pediment of Porta Alchemica, with the two triangles overlap and inscriptions in Latin, appears in a bookmark possessed by Berenger Saunière, who became the parish priest at Rennes-le-Château in 1885.