Tag: travel

  • 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 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.…