Una città "cristiana"? Costantino imperatore e la sua capitale

Text devoted to the founding of Constantinople, i.e. the urban centre that from the Late Antiquity on, and up to the present date, has been and is a stage and at the same time a driving force of important political, religious, cultural, social events and developments. Specific analysis is devoted to the hypothesis (strengthened by an influential scholarly tradition) that Constantinople, since its very beginning with the first Christian emperor, has been conceived as a “capital city” in a specific religious, Christian acception. The subject is interesting not only in academic terms, in front of the present debate between “sacred” and “civic” spaces in the West as well as in Istanbul, the heir of Constantinople in geopolitical terms.