RST is pleased to welcome back  guest blogger Theresa Potenza   (her last RST post was in 2018 on holidays in Rome  and before that on the...

 A friend recently asked us for suggestions of what to do around Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori. She was clear that she and her compa...

  While reading Sarah Bakewell's At the Existentialist Cafe , I learned that Simone de Beauvoir and her life-long companion, the philoso...

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 ...

English-language book stores (or bookshops, as the English call them) in Rome have dwindled over the years (along with map stores, to our ch...

The carefully collected and preserved tools of the restorer. Rome still hosts true artisans, although lamentations can be heard througho...