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Notes: this page shows the additions made in 2020, see what was added in 2019, in 2018, in 2017, in 2016, in 2015, 2014, in 2013, in 2012.
Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveller
On earth the brute creation bends its gaze,
but man was given a lofty countenance
and was commanded to behold the skies;
and with an upright face may view the stars.
Ovid - Metamorphoses - Book I - 1567 translation by Artur Golding
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June 2, 2020
Let's have another go..
May 13, 2020
Without their usual crowds Piazza del Pantheon ...
... and Fontana di Trevi convey a feeling of sadness
April 17, 2020
- A new name in the Hall of Fame - See the current quiz
April, 2020
Lockdown at San Saba
March 28, 2020
about Rome
March 21, 2020
- Entirely revised section
March 14, 2020
- Bavay (Bagacum), Tournai (Turnacum) and Tongeren (Atuatuca)
March 7, 2020 - Reims (Durocortorum) and Laon
March 6, 2020 - 4:00 pm
No queue at Bocca della Verità ...
... no crowds on the steps to Campidoglio. For the daring Rome is more beautiful than ever
February 29, 2020 - Roman Villa of Montcaret and Le Mans (Vindunum)
February 22, 2020 - Saintes (Mediolanum Santonum)
February 21, 2020
Pompeii: detail of a wall painting at Casa del Frutteto which was recently restored
February 15, 2020 - Périgueux (Vesunna)
February 8, 2020 - Bordeaux (Burdigala)
February 1, 2020 - Introduction
January 26, 2020 - A new name in the Hall of Fame - See the current quiz
January 25, 2020
- Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (Lugdunum Convenarum)
January 18, 2020 - Toulouse: Basilica of Saint-Sernin and Other Medieval Monuments
January 11, 2020 - Roman Toulouse and Roman Memories in the Environs of Toulouse
January 4, 2020
- Belvedere Palace and Vienna, City of the Last Roman Emperors (revised)
January 1, 2020 - 2:00 pm
Long queue to watch S. Pietro through a keyhole at Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta
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