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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 14. Paranoia and Porphyry: Domitian and the Domus Flavia on the Palatine Hill
Listen now (19 mins) | When visiting the ruins of the imperial palaces on the bucolic and ever-glorious Palatine Hill—possibly my favourite place in the…
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XV: Il Negozio di Antiquariato, Niccolò Fabi, 2003
This week children in Rome went back to school, the last piece of the end-of-summer puzzle which sees the traffic back to pre-pandemic norms after the…
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Agnes Crawford
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September's Monthly Newsletter
There’s a “back to school” vibe in the air, shops and restaurants have reopened refreshed, the breeze is crisp first thing in the morning, and the…
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Agnes Crawford
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EUR: De Chirico Writ Large
Yesterday I rode my Vespa through the deserted streets of EUR in these torrid days without names at the tail-end of August. In the umpteenth heatwave of…
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Agnes Crawford
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San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum
The Papal chapel of St Lawrence at the Lateran, the Holiest of Holies
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Agnes Crawford
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August's Monthly Newsletter
The dog days of summer are those days when Sirius, the Dog Star (so called for the way it follows Orion into the night sky), rises above the eastern…
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XIV: Che Calore, Pino Daniele, 1977
The summer I turned sixteen my family and I took an overnight car ferry to Northern Spain. Once there we roughly followed the route of the pilgrims…
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Agnes Crawford
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