The Derby

The Rome Derby, The Capitoline Derby, The “Cupolone” Derby: however you may wish to call it, the city’s soccer [...]

Talking Statues

Yes, Rome has also its own Talking Statues! Since the early sixteenth century until the whole of the nineteenth [...]

STROLLING WITH AUDREY HEPBURN

Fontana di Trevi, Piazza di Spagna, via Margutta : a stroll through these beautiful spots is like starring on [...]

A Movie Set

For quite a few years now the district of Garbatella has ben turned into a real movie set. Many [...]

Martyrs and the Bombing of San Lorenzo

If you should at some time find yourself in Piazza dell’Immacolata in the district of San Lorenzo, pay a [...]

The Pope’s stole

An aged-old ceremony is annually celebrated in the Basilica of Sant’Agnese (Via Nomentana 349) on the feast of this [...]

The Bone Crypt of the Capuchin Friars

The Church of Santa Maria della Concezione of the Capuchins, which is more frequently referred to as Nostra Signora [...]

Monte dei Cocci

The Monte dei Cocci, or Monte Testaccio, is an authentic “waste tip”, an artificial mound dating from the Roman [...]

Palazzo Spada and Borromini’s Perspective Gallery

In Piazza Capo di Ferro, near Piazza Farnese and Campo de’ Fiori, Borromini’s Prospective Gallery is waiting to be [...]

The magic Gate

This curiosity leads us back in time, exactly in 1680, when the Marquis Massimiliano Palombara, refined man of letters, [...]
Pagina 2 di 3123