Finding Settefinestre
Italy’s most celebrated post-war archaeologist, Andrea Carandini, essentially initiated a paradigm change in national field archaeology...
Orbetello international airport
Airports are mostly non-places, anonymous malls and lines for checking-in, security, passports, and boarding. Not so Orbetello...
December hedonism at Saturnia
Every country has its own way of enjoying itself. At least, this my explanation as I sit a mite awkwardly amongst hundreds of scantily...
S.Pietro a Corte: Salerno’s architectural masterpiece
Salerno is a Tyrrhenian jewel: a long esplanade bathed in sunlight paired with a tight, dark network of streets rising up the hill which...
La Grotta di San Michele ad Olevano sul Tusciano
Fascinating two-day conference at Battipaglia and Salerno dedicated to the extraordinary early Medieval cave sanctuary in the rugged...
A model for Italy’s castles & palaces: Newark Park, Gloucestershire
Italy always laments that it has too much heritage. How is it to maintain it all? The UK’s National Trust has an answer: strategize for...
Happy birthday, Jóska: Reflections on the sixtieth birthday of Prof. József Laszlovszky (Central Eu
Jóska’s first odyssey out of Hungary was to Riccardo Francovich’s excavations at Scarlino, Tuscany. The project has a new afterlife forty...
A magical mystery tour in Umbria
Day breaks with a thick mist and the raucous yelling of hunters. The veil of mist lifts to reveal a cloudless sky and the hunters fire...
Kastro Apalirou, Naxos
I climbed up to the mountainous peak of Kastro Apalirou in central Naxos eleven years ago. A decade later David Hill told me about the...
Pilgrimage to Keros
In 1963 a graduate student landed on the remote island of Keros and discovered a surface spread of broken Cycladic marble figurines. It...
