Secret Monteverde
Beside the Doria Pamphlij park, off a busy road through Monteverde, lies a sacred bower. Here lies the barn-like 17th-century church of...
Forgotten Rome?
A glorious morning for a change and as luck would have it I had an appointment at the Villa Lante in the shadow of Garibaldi’s statue on...
Claudio - delivered by Amazon Prime?
An exhibition about the Emperor Claudius with a sub-title dedicated to his women is currently on at the Ara Pacis, Rome. I tend not to go...
AN EPIPHANY: FORUM (OF PEACE) WARE & ITALIAN HISTORY
I had an epiphany on Friday. I went to see the latest excavations in Rome’s Forum of Peace (the Forum of Vespasian) and a new discovery...
ROME’S SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN II
Not so many walking routes taken you over Tiber Island. But once there you discover a hamlet on a minuscule footprint elevated high above...
ROME’S SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN I
It is too easy to take Rome for granted. Huge monumental ruins dwarfing the smaller details soon become the stuff of living or visiting...