Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveller
Quid sit futurum eras, fuge quaerere, et
quem Fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro
adpone.
Horace - Odes 1.9.13
(Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth)
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May 21, 2022
(thoroughly revised and increased)
May 14, 2022
- Fonti e Tempio del Clitunno - New!
May 7, 2022
- Casinum (Cassino) - New!
April 30, 2022
- Campagnano di Roma - New!
April 23, 2022
- John Chetwode Eustace's Classical Tour through Italy in 1802 - New!
April 16, 2022
- Flaminio Vacca's discoveries of antiquities in Rome - 1594 - New!
April 9, 2022
- in the centre of Rome - New!
April 2, 2022
- in the centre of Rome - New!
March 26, 2022
- Montelibretti and Moricone - New!
March 19, 2022 - Casperia (thoroughly revised and increased)
March 12, 2022 - Montopoli and Poggio Mirteto (thoroughly revised and increased)
March 5, 2022 - Civita Castellana : Forte Sangallo and Museo Archeologico
March 2, 2022 (Ash Wednesday)
Ash Wednesday procession to S. Sabina: (left) a prelate of an Eastern church; (centre) cardinals; (right) Cardinal Pietro Parolin (Pope Francis could not attend the ceremony because of a sore knee). Learn more about this ceremony
February 26, 2022
- New Underground Station of S. Giovanni
February 19, 2022
- thoroughly revised and increased
February 12, 2022 - Villa Torlonia
February 5, 2022 - John Ray and Edward Wright
January 29, 2022 - John Moore and William Hazlitt
January 22, 2022 - Thomas Gray and Anna Jameson
January 15, 2022
- NEW PAGE !!!
January 8, 2022
- NEW SECTION !!!
January 1, 2022 - 8:00 am
A highly unusual foggy start for the New Year from Giardino degli Aranci
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