Visiting Rome on a budget doesn’t mean ending up in the usual fast-food chains. In fact, just a short walk from the Vatican there are trattorias and osterie serving authentic Roman dishes at prices that are still reasonable. Here are 4 unmissable addresses: from the rustic osteria where there’s no printed menu, to the creative…
The Vatican Museums and the Quattro Cancelli Sculptures The Vatican Museums, custodians of countless works of art, recently completed a restoration project on a group of fourteen sculptures and sarcophagi known as the “quattro cancelli” (four gates). This corpus of statues stands in the Atrium of the Four Gates and represents an important record of…
Anyone who has been to Umbria knows it well: here you cry three times. The first time, when you arrive and are swept away by the beauty of the landscapes, the medieval villages and that authentic stillness that feels as though it comes from another era. The second time, when it is time to leave:…
In Rome, May means one thing: the Internazionali. For two weeks, the Foro Italico — the sports complex built by Mussolini, with sixty marble athlete statues lining the banks of the Tiber — becomes something that New York, Paris and London can only dream of. Stadio Pietrangeli Court number two is considered the most beautiful…
There is a moment when Assisi stops being the city of Saint Francis and becomes something else entirely. It happens every year on the first Thursday after 1 May, when the bells call everyone to the “Cerimonia delle Corti” and for three days history rewinds. The two Parti On one side the Parte de Sopra,…