Yes, what you're looking at are exactly two #baboons, painted in memory of a gift to #PaulIII, the first Pope of the #counterreformation, brought by foreign #ambassadors.
In fact, we are in ...
Apr 29

Welcomed at the #SpanishSteps!
So-called because a guy got lost in translation and crashed the proper name of the underlying #square and the one of the monumental #Steps to the #Church #Trinity ...
Apr 22

We are in the entrance hall of the #ancientCity of #Rome. A square that changed looked different time to impress the queen's and kings of Europe coming to visit the Pope.
The #Fountain of ...
Apr 13

The #Babington room was founded in 1893 by Isabel Cargill and Anna Maria Babington, two English ladies of good family who came to Rome with the intention of opening a #tea and #readingRoom for the ...
Apr 4

In the middle of #Rome inside the Palace of the Roman College, build in 16th century, there is an old beautiful library.
The palace was chosen because of its importance and its position as ...
Apr 1

On the footsteps of an Italian actor and Latin lover I got across this hotel. Staying in the heart of Rome is a unique experience, in fact confirmed sources narrate that the area in which it currently...
Apr 1

In the 1700s, Scottish doctor #GeorgeCleghorn discovered that quinine could treat #malaria.
By the 1800s, #BritishSoldiers stationed in India were drinking #gin (or any available #alcohol) and ...
Mar 27

It's nine o'clock in Rome and waiting my guests I listen to the noise of water and admire this #masterpiece: the #MoorFountain.
I'm at the southern end of #PiazzaNavona in ...
Mar 15

When I've to give an #officialPhoto of me I would love to get an unique #specialShot just for it. But, I'm a difficult subject... and #selfies are not my thing!
In spite of it, Rome can ...
Mar 11

We are at #VillaGiulia, a #Renaissance jewel where you can wonder about almost alone and discover the story of ancient #Etruscans, one of the earliest #ItalianPopulations.
There is this ...
Mar 2

In the middle of #Rome center, there is a Palace that signs the crossing of #RomanArchitecture from #MiddleAges to #Renaissance: #PalazzoVenezia.
It's a fortress with a bulky tower, it ...
Feb 27

We don't know when this #convent was built for the first time. The Church attached to it, whose official name is Santa Maria Nova, but called by the people Santa #FrancescaRomana, was erected on ...
Feb 24

It's #1890. #VincentVanGogh painted this #pietà a few months before his #death.
It is a small format painted for his sister.
He rarely treated #religiousSubjects, but this is part of a ...
Feb 22

In 2008 this part of an equestrian statue was found, probably one of the statues that adorned the arches of the #Colosseum. It was found during the repaving of the square in front of the Flavian ...
Feb 17

To drink a good #localBeer outside kissed by the #sunshine in #Rome is possible even in February, our coldest month.
It's also possible to #drink Rome:
it's an #ipa, non ...
Feb 13
