Tag: Parks and Nature

  • A Peaceful Oasis: Rome’s Protestant Cemetery

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    Rome’s leafy Protestant Cemetery is the final resting place for Keats, Shelley, and Gramsci.

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    Melanie Renzulli
    Protestant Cemetery, Rome

  • A Snowy ‘Staycation’ in Rome

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    Skiing and sledding within a tank of gas from Rome.

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    Melanie Renzulli
    snow covered mountain under blue sky during daytime

  • Italian Villas and Their Gardens

    Just in time for late spring and summer romps around Italy comes the reissue of Edith Wharton’s 1904 landscaping classic Italian Villas and Their Gardens.

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    Melanie Renzulli
    Villa d'Este at Lake Como in Lombardy

  • What’s Old Is New Again: Rome’s Via Appia Antica

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    Now that we’ve entered the Holy Season, tourism to Rome is going to start heating up again quite quickly. Of course, you can follow the pilgrimage throngs around the Lenten Station circuit. Or, you can travel outside the city walls to check out the Via Appia Antica. David Farley’s one-day itinerary along the ancient road…

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    Melanie Renzulli