Category Archives: Roma

Some final thoughts as I leave Rome. I was surprised by the number of drinking fountains all over the city.  (Shouldn’t have been, of course, considering its history of aqueducts.) I saw an enormous number of Romans walking dogs. Gelato is … Continue reading →

I found this a fitting reminder of how the Silk Road has tied Rome and China together for centuries.

  Bernini‘s Fontana del Tritone in front of the Bernini Hotel in the Piazza Barberini.

This imposing structure right next to the Castel Sant’Angelo is the Supreme Court of Cassation, the highest court in Italy.

Sunset over Rome as seen from high atop the Castel Sant’Angelo.   

The cylindrical Mausoleum of Hadrian was built across the Tiber from the Campus Martius by the Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family (and should not be confused with Hadrian’s Crypt which was, as I’ve pointed out, for a totally different … Continue reading →

Although the Piazza Navona is dominated by the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, at either end are two smaller, less ostentatious fountains:  the Fontana del Moro……and the Fontana del Nettuno.

The back of the Palatine Hill as seen from the Circus Maximus to the south.   Note the workmen in orange laboring on the hillside.

The Circus Maximus.  Little more than a dog park, now.

As a native Angelino, I felt that I ought to have a special connection with Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. The place is almost unrelentingly ornate.     I found this stained glass cupola of the night sky particularly … Continue reading →