Showing posts with label Monte Cavo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monte Cavo. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Neo-fascism comes to picturesque small-town Italy

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  Men outside Caff è  Europa  in the Roman hill town of Rocca di Papa. We've always enjoyed watching the men (it's always men) in lo...
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Friday, January 22, 2021

Logging the forests near Rome: We know only the "overstory"

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  Above, at the foot of Monte Cavo (north side), practically on top of the via Sacra, 2019 Italians - like people everywhere - have been cut...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Roman roads pave the way to prosperity in the 21st century

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The old via Prenestina, a Roman road we "ran across" in the Roman countryside, this near Gallicano nel Lazio, during our mostly...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Calatrava's swimming pool: viewed from Rome's mountains

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This post is about a swimming pool.  It's in the photo above, but you were probably looking at the Alban hills, or the moon, or t...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Best Hike in the Colli Albani: Monte Cavo, twice, with gourmet lunch

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We included an itinerary for climbing Monte Cavo in our book, Rome the Second Time: 15 Itineraries that Don't Go to the Coliseum .  Now...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Hiking the Alban Hills from Rocca di Papa: Monte Cavo, Monti delle Faete, Colle Lano

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A view from late in the hike: Rocca di Papa's cemetery in the foreground, ancient Tuscolo on the ridge behind RST  goes hiking in ...
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