Showing posts with label Ostia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ostia. Show all posts
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Ostia's Garbatella - 1926 public housing and a WWII bomb shelter

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Ostia, a town along the Mediterranean Sea not far from Rome - the new, not the ancient Ostia - is partly a creation of the Fascists. It was ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Waiting Out the Coronavirus in Ostia

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Waiting Out the Coronavirus in Ostia by Marcello Massatani (3/27/2020; photos likely 3/7/2020 or before) This is the 4th in a series of ...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Ostia Antica: Really Old, Really Close

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RST is pleased to have as guest blogger Martha Bakerjian. Martha is one of our favorite writers on travelling in Italy.  She's knowled...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Renato Papagni and the Centro Olimpico Fijlkam (what?)

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"Art" photo, with building framed by yellow fence in foreground.  RST enjoys an occasional annual pilgrimage to the sea, eve...
Friday, November 13, 2015

With Pasolini, it's all about the Body

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The setting.  Dianne says the Institute's logo is adapted from Italian Futurism.  That claim lacks confirmation. Pier Paolo Pasoli...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Beach Politics: the Ostia "Varchi"

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A (mostly) private (or pay) beach at Ostia.  Not a particularly grand operation, with legal access to anyone through a narrow passagewa...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Idroscalo: An unauthorized, self-built Rome community

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It's not often we're "scooped" by La Repubblica , but that was the feeling I had this morning (May 24, 2015) when I opened...