For the First Time Ever, Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Will Be Exhibited in Rome
"Treasures of the Pharaohs" will explore everything from the rulers' divine authority to daily life and artistic achievements over 3,000 years
Read moreDetailsFormer editor at the American Academy in Rome and at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, with journalistic accreditation in Italy and the Vatican, I’m culture editor of the US monthly Inside the Vatican; European Bureau chief of Epicurean-Traveler.com, and regular contributor to KMT: a Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, German Life, and the Italian food and travel monthly La Madia Travelfood.
"Treasures of the Pharaohs" will explore everything from the rulers' divine authority to daily life and artistic achievements over 3,000 years
Read moreDetailsThe exhibition, “From Eggs to Apples: The Culture of Food and the Pleasures of the Table in Ancient Herculaneum” will be on display in the Campanian city of Herculaneum until December 31. Located at the magnificently frescoed 18th-century Rococo Villa Campolieto designed by the Neapolitan architect and painter Luigi Vanvitelli...
Read moreDetailsTraditionally confetti are almonds from Avola, a town in Sicily’s province of Syracuse, encased in a hard outer shell of sugar. A symbol of good fortune and prosperity, they’re ubiquitous at all Italian celebrations, most frequent in the spring and summer, but of course not exclusively. At baptisms the confetti’s...
Read moreDetailsSince mid-February four new titles about pizza have appeared on bookstores’ shelves or to order on the internet. They all tell the stories of the owner-pizzaioli’ and their restaurants, and each volume contains several recipes, some traditional and others unique. We the Pizza: Slangin’ Pies and Savin’ Lives ($28.67) was...
Read moreDetailsOn display until July 6 is “Caravaggio 2025”, 24 of this hot-tempered painter’s 60 authenticated masterpieces. It’s exhibited in Rome’s Palazzo Barberini, once the home of Antonio Barberini, Caravaggio’s most ardent collector and the nephew of Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII (1623-44). After purchase, four have never left Palazzo Barberini:...
Read moreDetailsConsecrated on August 5, 434, Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major) is the earliest Marian sanctuary in the West. It’s home to the Salus Populi Romani, the world’s most important Marian icon likely painted by St. Luke the Evangelist, and to a silver, gold and crystal reliquary containing parts of...
Read moreDetailsWater has always been an integral part of Rome’s landscape and culture from its ancient aqueducts and Imperial baths to its majestic Renaissance and Baroque fountains commissioned by her ruling popes, and since the mid-19th century, her “nasoni”, or drinking fountains. Thus, thanks to her over 2,000 fountains--plus some 2,500...
Read moreDetailsThe financier bought the manuscript of A Christmas Carol in the 1890’s. Every Christmas the staff advance the story by one page
Read moreDetailsOn November 29 the first museum in the world dedicated to England’s great Romantic-era poet Lord George Gordon Byron opened in Ravenna. It’s an appropriate date since 2024 is the 200th anniversary of his death on April 19 probably from rheumatic fever, in Missolonghi, Greece where he, a champion of...
Read moreDetailsThe Museo Egizio boasts the world's only collection that represents all periods of Ancient Egyptian history
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