Whatever your budget, the Venezia Unica tourist pass is still the best place to start. Venice can get expensive very quickly if you buy every vaporetto ride and museum ticket separately. As of this update,…
The Loggia dei Lanzi on the Piazza della Signora in Florence is the high focus of a visit to this historical and magnificent city . Perseus holding Medusa’s head by Cellini is one of the…
The park of Villa Borghese is a vast area north of Rome acquired in the late 16th century by the Borghese family. One of its main buildings is the Villa Medici and the other is…
There are about more than 2,500 fountains in Rome, from the smallest like the Fontana delle api up to the large and majestic as the one of Trevi. The Fountain of Neptune is one of…
The gilt bronze statue of Hercules in the Capitoline Museum in Rome shows him whit the golden apple of the Hesperides in his left hand, a fruit that is also associate to Heracles in the…
One might expect that the name of the sculptor of the bronze Archangel adorns the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome could be Sanmartino or Canova, but it is a Flemish sculptor named Peter Anton von Verschaffelt…
A volute crater is a large vase of antiquity in which wine and water were mixed. This one, in white marble, was part of the garden furniture of a villa excavated in Stabies in 1749….
The crossing of the Alps from France to Italy is an easy thing today, Aliénor d’Aquitaine and Napoleon would probably have appreciated the TGV 😉 A great opportunity to use the train as a travel…
This fresco discovered in Pompeii represents two magnificent Roman warships armed with rams at the bow. A rare work that gives us an idea of the colours and the presence of these ships from which…
God, athlete or family member The votive figurines have existed since prehistoric times but will take their large scale expansions among the Greeks. Made of terracotta, the Tanagras had a craze that exceeded the borders…
