Blogs and Travel Tips
Accurate insider guide to Rome art, history, cultural heritage and local travel tips.
There can be few sights in the world more romantic than the dazzling sweep of the Spanish Steps. One of the great masterpieces of Baroque urban design, Rome’s most iconic staircas ...
8th Nov 2019
It’s that time of year again. The evenings are drawing in, a chill is beginning to spike the evening air, and all-around trees are donning spectacular Technicolor coats of orange, ...
29th Oct 2019
The great flowering of architectural modernism in the Eternal City coincided with the inexorable rise of Italian fascism in the 1930s, and the major monuments of the period are ...
27th Sep 2019
This week we’re taking a closer look at the other major protagonists of the Roman games at the Colosseum: wild animals.
20th Sep 2019
An introductory primer to the gladiator games
6th Sep 2019
The Palatine Hill is a vital piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is Ancient Rome, whose spectacular ruins are far too often overlooked by visitors to the city en-route to the nearby ...
30th Aug 2019
