Lago di Puccini – Lake Massaciuccoli, Tuscany, Italy
Lago di Puccini is a nature reserve eleven miles from Lucca where Giacomo Puccini lived. He chose the lake as a home so that he could shoot its other inhabitants. Now however the lake is […]
Italy
Does one die in Rome or at Rome? Shelley, Keats and the cemetery
The Protestant cemetery in Rome is a calm, shady area away from the traffic and noise of Rome. When you come out of the tube station at Pyramide near Porta San Paolo you will see […]
Rome’s Capitoline museums – Highlights part 2
Part 2 of our survey of the treasures in Rome’s Capitoline museums. Statues are the biggest draw in the collection, although there is an art gallery on the top floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori. […]
Treasures of the Vatican Museums Part 1
The Vatican museums house some of the greatest treasures in the world. No counting the Sistine chapel there are still thousands of statues and pictures, objects and images housed in hundreds of rooms. Here is […]