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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July 23, 2022
- Frascati - Museo Tuscolano - New!
July 16, 2022 - Albano - Archaeological Museums - New!
July 9, 2022
- Chiusi - New!
July 2, 2022
- Rieti - Archaeological Museum - New!
June 25, 2022
- Frosinone - New!
June 18, 2022 - Orvieto (thoroughly revised) and with a new page on its museums
June 11, 2022
- Archaeological Museum of Montecelio - New!
June 4, 2022
- New!
June 2, 2022
Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic, reviews the troops before the military parade which every year celebrates the result of the referendum by which in 1946 the Italians chose the Republic as institutional form of the state. The President's car is a 1950s Lancia. The parade did not take place in 2020 and 2021. Learn more about this ceremony
May 28, 2022
- Spoleto (thoroughly revised and increased)
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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