At 3,538 meters in the Italian Alps stands the highest sanctuary in Europe. A bronze statue of the Virgin Mary stands at the summit, and pilgrims have climbed Rocciamelone since 1358.
The circumference of the parallel that passes through the summit encodes √2 – one of the most fundamental constants in mathematics.
On a perfect sphere, this would happen at 45° – the exact midpoint between the equator and the North Pole. But the Earth is not a perfect sphere. It is slightly flattened at the poles, and this flattening shifts the √2 point to 45°12’12” North.
That is the latitude of Rocciamelone. Exact to the arcsecond.
The highest sanctuary in Europe sits precisely on the one line around the planet where the circumference encodes the square root of 2 – at the exact midpoint between the equator and the North Pole.
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