Rome Fun Facts: The Pantheon

Posted on September 12th 2024 in Travel Rome

The Pantheon is one of Rome’s most iconic monuments, perhaps second only to the Colosseum in its grandeur and fame. As we find with so many structures from antiquity, the Pantheon’s pagan origins ...

Rome Fun Facts: Trevi Fountain

Posted on July 28th 2024 in Travel Rome

If the Colosseum is Rome’s poster boy then Trevi Fountain is without a doubt Rome’s poster girl (seeing as Colosseo is masculine and fontana is feminine in Italian.) The fountain, a Baroque master...

The Vatican Museums: Heavenly Art, Hellish Experience

Posted on May 18th 2024 in Travel Rome ITALY

The Vatican Museums is one of the most sublime treasure troves of art in all the world, spanning centuries of human creativity and spirituality. Twenty thousand pieces (of the seventy thousand works...

The Story of Michelangelo in Rome: Part 2, Obsession & Anger

Posted on May 8th 2024 in Travel Rome ITALY

Born and raised in Tuscany, Michelangelo rose from relatively humble beginnings to become one of the most sought-after and well-paid artists of the Renaissance.As a craftsman, he was a legend in his ...

The Story of Michelangelo in Rome: Part 1, Glory & Darkness

Posted on April 15th 2024 in Travel Rome ITALY

Legendary genius, legendary obsession, legendary loneliness.Famous rivals, famous patrons, famous censors.Michelangelo is arguably the most celebrated artist of the Renaissance. A true Renaissance man...

Et tu, Kitten? Cats Share the Spotlight with Caesar’s Murder

Posted on July 28th 2023 in Travel Rome

Smack in the middle of one of the busiest transportation hubs in Rome — Largo di Torre Argentina — sits a rectangular excavation site that until last month seemed a nondescript, abandoned archeo...

Feel Like a Gladiator on the Colosseum’s New Arena Floor

Posted on June 17th 2022 in Travel Rome

Rome’s Colosseum, a technological and architectural wonder when it was constructed almost two thousand years ago, is about to time warp into the 21st century with a modern reconstruction of the aren...

Good Enough for the Pope: The Castelli Romani

Posted on May 14th 2022 in Travel Rome

The Castelli Romani (literally, Roman Castles), a collection of hilltop villages around Lake Albano and Lake Nemi about 25 minutes south of Rome, have always been synonymous with great food and simpli...

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Rome Fun Facts: The Pantheon

Rome Fun Facts: Trevi Fountain

The Vatican Museums: Heavenly Art, Hellish Experience

The Story of Michelangelo in Rome: Part 2, Obsession & Anger

The Story of Michelangelo in Rome: Part 1, Glory & Darkness

Et tu, Kitten? Cats Share the Spotlight with Caesar’s Murder

Feel Like a Gladiator on the Colosseum’s New Arena Floor