Showing posts with label Villa Torlonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Villa Torlonia. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Jewish Catacombs under Villa Torlonia - part of the you-can't-go-there-anyway series

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In the you-can't-go-there-anyway series, we explore - virtually - one set of Jewish catacombs under Rome. Yes, Jewish catacombs, which t...
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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Behind the Ministry of Transport: Spectacular Villas from a Century Ago

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  Not long ago (Covid time--in real time, it was May, 2018), Dianne and I took a tour of the magnificent ville and villini  in the neighborh...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Duilio Cambellotti - an Arts & Crafts Master in Rome

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From the Latina series, mythologizing the "heroic" peasant. Duilio Cambellotti is an Italian artist who worked in, and excel...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Home of the playwright: Pirandello's studio and home in Rome - home in Rome series 3

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Pirandello's bedroom The third and last of our homes of the famous-in-Italy you can visit is Luigi Pirandello’s home near Villa Torlo...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

RST Top 40. #25: Villa Torlonia - a park and art and fakes and Mussolini and...

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Villa Torlonia is another Rome park with something for everyone: ancient history, fake ancient, medieval, you-name-it history, flora,...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Galeazzo Ciano's Remarkable Diaries

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Galeazzo Ciano was Mussoini's son-in-law and Italian Foreign Minister from 1936 to 1943. He was executed in January, 1944. Ciano left us...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The (former) Mayor of Rome, #1 Kindle and Rome the Second Time

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A couple of cool Rome the Second Time events yesterday: handing (former) Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni his own copy of Rome the Second Time, ...
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