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Giant Street Art adds spice to Rome’s Creative Scene

December 18, 2019 By Fabio Barilari

A Local Perspective to Rome’s Creative Scene In 2015 I went to live in a neighbourhood in south Rome called Tor Marancia. Up until a few years earlier, this area had been considered “one to avoid”: a zone of public housing notorious for deprivation and high crime rates. But one morning, passing Tor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: Rome, Street art, Tor Marancia, tourist attraction

Estasi del Calcio: Going to a Football Game in Rome

March 8, 2017 By Dan Morey

Roma Curva Sud

Dauntless Dan Morey & his mettlesome Mama enjoy the ecstasy of Italian football Football in Rome: Buying Tickets in the Piazza Colonna I was standing in line at the A.S. Roma store in the Piazza Colonna, waiting to buy tickets for the upcoming Roma/Catania football game. I’d arrived early, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: calcio, Curva Sud, Distinti Sud, football, Italy, Roma, Rome, Stadio dei Marmi, Stadio Olimpico, tifosi, Totti, Ultras

Rome’s Noonday Gun rivals that of Hong Kong!

October 21, 2016 By Tony Page

Rome Noonday Gun at Piazza Garibaldi

Rome's Noonday Gun goes off with a bang - it's a Piazza Garibaldi party! https://youtu.be/l9UNhDJgBDw "We're here in Rome's Piazza Garibaldi, on top of the Gianicolo Hill, and we're just about to go down to see the gun being fired at midday. It's a Sunday, so there are a lot of people here, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: Europe, Gianicolo Hill, Italy, Midday Gun, Noonday Gun, Piazza Garibaldi, Rome, travel

Vagabonds and Poets at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome

March 29, 2016 By Dan Morey

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Dan Morey is impressed by the Baths and two college girls; a French vagabond, not so much: I stood on a hill overlooking the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla). Though the ruins are immense, only a fraction of the original complex remains. There’s a rectangular grid of stone walls, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: arches, Baths of Caracalla, Joseph Severn, mosaic, Rome, Shelley, terme di caracalla

My Whistle Stop Tour of Italy

August 16, 2012 By Jo Turnbull

Jo Turnbull dashes down some quick-fire notes as she hot-foots it through Italy As the home of art, opera, and fashion and not forgetting ice cream and pasta, Italy is one of the most interesting countries in Europe. The shape of a boot with a football on the toe representing Sicily, it is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Destinations Tagged With: Florence, Italy, italy tour, Rome, venice, Verona

Via Francigena – Rome – secret view

November 16, 2009 By Almis Simans

One of the best viewing places We were in Siena on the Via Francigena heading towards Rome. Hungry after the day’s activities, we enjoyed dinner in the hotel’s restaurant where we met Nick and Izaskum. . They had just returned from Rome and Nick suggested, that when we got to Rome, to walk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Walking Experiences Tagged With: Aventine Hill, Bocca della Verita, Maltese Embassy, Rome, St. Peter's, Tempio di Vesta, Via Francigena

Rome attractions – The Crypt of the Capuchins

May 4, 2009 By Helen Page

Skeletons, skulls and bones in the city centre of Rome: We came to Piazza Barberini in search of Tony's razor part, but what we found was something more macabre! At the foot of Via Veneto, at no. 27, is the the church of Santa Maria della Concezione, better known as the Capuchin Church. Beneath … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: Capuchin friars, Crypt of the Capuchins, Fontana delle Api, Rome, Rome sightseeing, Rome sightseeing tours, Santa Maria della Concesione, Sightseeing

Italy Travel

April 29, 2009 By Tony Page

An Italy Tour is more than a Roman Holiday... I love Italy. Travel in Italy should mean swanning round in a red Ferrari convertible between legendary hotels in legendary places like the Hotel Cipriani in Venice, the Hassler in Rome and Corbusier's Punta Tragara in Capri. Not just a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: cheap rome hotels, espresso, italy tour, italy travel, roman holiday, Rome, rome hotels, slow food, travel in italy, Tuscany, venice, via condotti, walking in italy

Tour Routes in Italy

April 29, 2009 By Tony Page

Suggested Tour Routes to make the best of your holiday in Italy A Suggested Route around Italy A comprehensive tour of Italy would take a long time, and if limited to the usually visited sights would omit many interesting experiences. However, here is my offering, and I'd say this was a 24 day … [Read more...]

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