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  • Lovely Time Lapse Video of Rome

    Lovely Time Lapse Video of Rome

    I always love a good time-lapse video, and especially if it features Rome! Here’s a very recent one that shows Rome in her late summer splendor. It was shot by Josh of jandrewfilmandphotography.com, who used 7,000 images to create this 2-minute, 37-second clip. Hyperlapse has a long way to go to get results like these.

  • Veneto Spa Hotel Has the World’s Deepest Thermal Pool

    Veneto Spa Hotel Has the World’s Deepest Thermal Pool

    About half an hour by train from Venice and even closer to Padua is Hotel Millepini Terme, a spa hotel that has the Guinness World Record for the world’s deepest thermal pool. The Y-40 The Deep Joy is 137-feet deep (40 meters) at its deepest, with four underwater grottos along the way. There’s a viewing tunnel at…

  • Enrico Toti: Italy’s One-Legged Cyclist Turned World War I Hero

    Enrico Toti: Italy’s One-Legged Cyclist Turned World War I Hero

    Italian cyclist Enrico Toti may have the most fascinating World War I story I’ve ever read.

  • Italy Hit Parade Vol. I

    Italy Hit Parade Vol. I

    Discovering new or new-to-me music has always been one of my favorite things about traveling and living abroad. So I plan to use this space to bring you some of the songs that I’m listening to in Italy. Some of the music will be bubbly pop, some hip hop, some…I don’t know what. But most, if…

  • Roma So Far

    Roma So Far

    Hello from Rome! Sign up for the Italofile newsletter. More to come soon…

  • Ancients Doing Modern Things

    Ancients Doing Modern Things

    Sed primum a me accipe selfie

  • Posted in Sardinia

    Posted in Sardinia

    An Italian Army tale from 1960 set in a train chugging through Sardinia.