History & Heritage, Tuscia Excursions
Nemi and Lake Nemi below, are in the Alban Hills outside Rome. The village is known for its fantastic views as far as the sea, and for its strawberries both wild and cultivated. Beloved of poets such as Lord Byron and Goethe, and painters like Claude and Turner, it...
History & Heritage, Insider Stories
The tragic Marchioness Christina Spartali Cahen Cristina Cahen died, from an overdose of chloral, possibly accidentally, aged 37, in 1884. It was a fashionable drug in artistic circles, both her sister’s husband Stillman and the painter Rossetti, were habitual...
Freud and Orvieto, History & Heritage, Insider Stories
On his three visits to Orvieto, Freud always stayed in the comfortable Hotel delle Belle Arti on Corso Cavour in the town center, midway between Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele (now Piazza Repubblica) and the central clock tower, La Torre del Moro. There is a plaque....
Architecture, Art & Culture, Tuscia Excursions
The Roman Road The Val D’Orcia is one of the most famous valleys in the world even though the name itself may not mean much. Tourists have travelled the Roman road called the via Cassia since the 16th century on the Grand Tour, but before them it was trod by...
