Italy
There are 181 items in Italy:
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano - Terme di Diocleziano
When I visited Rome for the first time, back in ’82, the Museo nazionale romano was closed. I do not recall when I was for the first time able to visit it, although it must have been in the early…
Rome, Pantheon, The non-fitting roofs |
Rome, Vatican Museums
If you think that the message of the Catholic Church has something to do with love for humankind, you haven’t visited the Vatican Museums yet. It is impossible to leave the building without feeling a profound hatred against other people…Rome, Via Appia
Via Appia: ancient road from Rome to Capua, Beneventum, and Brundisium. Via Appia near the Villa of the Quintilii Anyone traveling to…
Rome, Via Appia, Tomb of the Curatii |
Rome, Via Appia, Tomb of the Horatii |
Rome, Villa Giulia
I visited the Villa Giulia for the first time in 1982, a couple of days before my eighteenth birthday. I had read the first five books by Livy and had become fond of early Roman history, which naturally drove me…Romulus
Romulus: legendary founder of Rome.Legend The she-wolf and the twins Romulus and Remus Romulus and his twin were born as children of…Sabines
Sabines (Greek: Σαβῖνοι): ancient people, living in the valley of the river Tiber. South-Etrurian aryballos with a centaur, found in a…
Satricum, Temple II, Relief of an Amazon |
The old bridge across the Rubico at Savignano |
Scipio Africanus |