The Getaway Guide for Men – Rome!
The eternal city has more culture, romance and swarthiness than George Clooney and Penelope Cruz’s lovechild draped in Dolce & Gabbana. Even people who haven’t visited know this to be true and, for this reason, […]
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Eating in Rome – a few highlights to make your mouth water
Simple, delicious food is one of the key points of Italian cuisine. Enjoy these shots of some of the best… Tomato and mozzarella salad with one solitary but sweet-smelling basil leaf. Pizza with buffalo mozzarella […]
Highlights of Rome’s Capitoline Museums – part 1
The Capitoline museums date from 1471 and are one of the world’s oldest public museums, its buildings proudly standing on the Capitoline Hill either side of Michelangelo’s beautiful Piazza. It was begun by Pope Sixtus […]
Caravaggio in Rome
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio spent several years in Rome before fleeing a death warrant in 1606 issued after he had committed murder. He was in Rome when the Catholic church was actively countering Protestantism, building […]