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Summer high-season in Rome means a flood of tourists into the already scorching city. Add in these few thousand eager foreigners and the city becomes a humid, crowded bubble of heat. With temperatures reaching easily in the nineties, it is difficult to make your way around the city without wilting like an under-watered flower. However, there… Read More
A great reason for a morning walk along the Tiber is to check out the Testaccio Market, which sells everything from shoes to housewares to books to fish.
A visit to Venice, Italy isn’t complete without a gondola ride down the Grand Canal and a couple of side canals that substitute for streets.
The Villa D’Este, located in Tivoli outside of Rome, features a plethora of spectacular fountains in the villa garden.
What can one say about Rome’s charms that hasn’t been said before? From a kaleidoscope of images and experiences emerged a theme of spurting, dribbling, spouting, gushing fountains built by Romans at the terminus of every aqueduct bringing water into the city from miles away.
Fall is a beautiful time of year to visit Italy. The grapes are ripe for picking, and the olives are ready for their liquid transformation. Let me recommend the walk up the tree-lined driveway of the Castello di Santa Maria in Viterbo, Italy. Set in the Diocese of Bagnoregio, you’ll be surrounded by the beautiful landscape of this… Read More
