For huge reclamation of the Roman coast, seven years long, workers from Romagna, Ravennati or Romagnoli, arrived more than 135 years ago when Ostia was a no man’s land: marshes, malaria and nothing more…
Rome was not built in a day, and when 2000 years ago was the biggest city with nearly one million of inhabitants who needed fresh water, clothes, games, and food, the Tiber River as connection to the Mediterranean Sea was crucial.
Visiting the excavations of Ostia Antica is like diving into a world apart; you leave the city chaos of modern Rome and enter an oasis of tranquillity catapulted back in time… but it’s not the only treasure the area keeps for you!
The island is so luxuriant and enjoyable that it does not lack excellent grazing herbs either in the summer or in the winter months; in spring then it is filled with roses and other…
According to the etymology, the word Episcope is related both with the meaning of “Bishop’s house” and even with the meaning of “to guard”. And indeed this castle appears as a defensive and small fortress more than
Restoring and lifting the remains that we can see nowadays along the Appian Way created the archaeological walk, and in 1909, the first protection law was promulgated but it was not enough against the modern barbarians…
There, alone, stands the Gazometro (i.e. Gasometer), one of the most evocative symbols of the industrial archeology of Rome. An iron giant almost 90 meters high (295 feet), nicknamed the “Industrial Colosseum”…
In the 4th century B.C. the first aqueduct was built to take spring water from the mountains east of Rome to the city. After that, others were built until Rome had 11…
A guided tour to a Roman pyramid, a hill of anphoras, archeological areas related to the river port and much of the authentic story of Testaccio district between museums and contemporary life…
Local tribes, such as Etruscan, Falisci, and Capenati, from north to the coast, shared its riverbed, to exchange trade goods, tools, ceremonies, customs, and knowledge…
Maternal, fruitful, and generous, Pomona is a goddess that appears in Latin literature in the 1st century B.C. It’s not a deity fund of woods and rivers, she doesn’t let humans…
The towery town of Torrita Tiberina dominates the the Tiber River where once there was its port and today has a new call: enter into a magic world of the Fondazione Serpone, welcomed by…
