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Mid Knights in the Garden - 83 days ago
Tom and Rosa visited Rome for their 35th wedding anniversary. For this special visit, we went to the “Land beyond the Keyhole” and into the Knights of Malta garden, one of Rome’s most fascinating and mysterious places --- a lot like a 35-year...

Threads of Roman History - 139 days ago
At the top of a small stone stairway climbing the Janiculum hill is a curious church revealing important threads of Roman history. The cloister of Sant’Onofrio (Humphrey) is now the Casa Generale of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, a small...

Big Sky Umbria - 145 days ago
Italy is not commonly associated with the “big sky” look of unlimited vistas, so the Grande Piano of the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini between Norcia and Castelluccio, in eastern Umbria, is legendary. This ancient lake, at almost 1500 meters...

Friends of Rome Gardens - 161 days ago
In the ‘Thinking globally, acting locally’ vein, my friends and I recently formed a cultural association, Amici dei Giardini di Roma, which we will also incorporate as a 501c3 in the U.S., as “Friends of Rome Gardens.” It is a “numbers...

Memorial Day - 173 days ago
This year, I took a group to the U.S. Memorial Day commemoration at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, south of Rome. It was an extraordinary day, in extraordinary company. Only a mile from Anzio, the beachhead of the Allies’...

