Roma e Il Santuario dei Gatti di Largo Argentina
Quando i lavori edilizi del 1929 riportarono alla luce il complesso archeologico di Torre Argentina, in pochi avrebbero immaginato quale nuova e particolare storia sarebbe nata tra i 4 templi di età repubblicana ritrovati. È in questa area sacra infatti che Giulio Cesare, tra i più famosi condottieri romani, trovò la morte per mano di…
Nasoni give you water since 1870s
No other city in the world can boast as many public drinking fountains as Rome, where there are 2.000. These little fountains are called Nasoni, literally meaning large nose, because of their characteristic design: most Nasoni share a design in the shape of a column. The form of the water spout varies but most nasoni…
At Uffizi Gallery you can live Italian Renaissance
The Uffizi Gallery is an important art museum next to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museum, it is also one of the largest and best known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from…
The Seven Hills, the geographical heart of Rome
Talking about the history of Rome means talking about Seven Hills, because they are intertwined with the foundation of Rome, the original delimitation of the citys limits and its consolidation of power over time. They form the geographical heart of Rome, within the walls of the city. Romulus and Remus founded the city on the…
Roman forum, the center of religious and public life in ancient Rome
The Roman Forum, located between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum, is the greatest sign of the splendour of the Roman Empire that can be seen today. It is a rectangular square surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space as the Forum Magnum, or…
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, the most outstanding piece of work of Bernini
Canonized largely for the spritual visions she experienced, Teresa of Ávila was a Spanish noblewoman who chose a monastic life in the Catholic Church. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is the central sculptural group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. It was designed and…
Sistine Chapel, one of the best human masterpiece
The frescoes that we are contemplating here introduce us into the world of the contents of the Revelation. The truths of our faith speak to us here from all sides. From them human genius took its inspiration undertaking to clothe them in forms of incomparable beauty. (Pope John Paul II) The Sistine Chapel is a…
Garden of the Fugitives
Perhaps the most vivid and heart-wrenching site in Pompeii is the Garden of the Fugitives. Here, archaeologists found 13 almost perfectly preserved bodies, buried in ash. Among the 13 were entire families with children that were caught by surprise by the eruption while fleeing Pompeii, headed towards the sea. Believed to be one of the…
Gladiators
With nearly a thousand years of history in Ancient Rome, myth and folklore about gladiator battles has had a lot of time to grow. Even the first ancient Romans to write about gladiators couldn’t come to an agreement about the origins of the battles. Add another two thousand years and a seemingly endless number…
The secret beauty of Castel Sant’Angelo
Castel Sant’Angelo, also known as Hadrian’s Mausoleum, lies in Parco Adriano, very close to St. Peter’s Square. Commissioned by Roman Emperor Hadrian in 123AD as a mausoleum for himself and his relatives, it later became a fortress a few hundred years later in 401, under the orders of Emperor Honorius. It underwent intensive looting during…