Tag: history

  • UNEXPECTED ROME Tombs of Via Latina

    Romans buried their dead outside city walls. This tradition, inherited from Etruscan and Greeks, was also a practical measure to avoid the spread of disease. Burials were forbidden within the city’s pomerium, a sacred boundary that separated Rome from the rest of Italy. This is why many tombs lined the roads just outside Rome, with all…

  • ROMAN OLBIA Olbia

    The ‘Must see’ – Roman ships in the Archaelogical Museum Military supremacy of the seas was crucial for Ancient Rome: its powerful naval fleet, developed in the Punic wars against the Carthaginians, became a perfect war machine. Propelled by both sail and oars, Roman ships had multiple levels of rowers, from the fast and maneuverable…

  • ROMAN FANO Fanum Fortunae

    The ’Must see’ – Vitruvius Basilica, the Dream of an Architect Fano, on the Adriatic Sea, is famous for its beaches, sandy or with smooth pebble, but it has also an incredibly rich Roman past. For this visit we must start by talking about a giant of architecture who was almost certainly born in Fano.…