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January 2025

A Quarter of a Century in Rome
Twenty-five years ago today, on the last Saturday of the first month of a shiny new millennium, I moved to Italy for perhaps six months.
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
6. Santa Maria in Aracoeli
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Never far from Rome IV
A Julio-Claudian prince in Aldeburgh
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Vespa Tunes XXII: Ecco Che Arriva Er Sole, I Sette Re di Roma, 1989
In November an eminent Classics pal suggested we go and see a comic musical in Roman dialect about the seven kings of Rome.
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January's Postcard from Rome
December saw a flurry of frenetic activity as restoration projects and roadworks across the city hurried towards completion in time for the beginning of…
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December 2024

A Gallop through 2024's tours
Here are some glimpses of places I took folk in 2024; whichever time of year you come (even in a Jubilee year) with some judicious choice of sites and…
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Tanti auguri!
Tanti auguri to you all for a merry Christmas, a jolly festive season and a happy new year.
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My favourite Roman nativity scene, and 801 years of presepi
The first Christmas tree in front of St Peter’s Basilica was erected in 1982 which, while not as recent as I might like to think, is neither aeons ago.
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The Stoicism of the Hellenistic Boxer at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
Photographs taken on 5 December 2024
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 23. The Villa of the Quintili.
At the fifth mile of the Appian Way, on a site built out from the lava ridge of the ancient road and redolent with ancient legends, the Villa of the…
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December's Postcard from Rome
Details of how to join a live-streamed Christmas walk are at the end!
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