Rome is called the Eternal City but I ask myself what that means. The word eternal can mean lasting forever, without end and timeless; but it can also mean an emphasized expression of admiration in a phrase such as my eternal gratitude. How can these concepts be associated to a city? And, if I can call Rome eternal, why can’t I call Athens or Jerusalem the same? Continue reading The Eternal City
When I first arrived in Rome, it amazed me to see so many different types of nuns and priest walking in the streets. I guess then, I didn’t realize the Vatican was a State and Rome are by the sea, as I was also ignorant of the culture, food, and language (I knew a little about paintings). There was a bliss in ignorance that I wish I still had because I was like a child amazed and thrilled to learn and absorb my surroundings. Continue reading Point Of View: When I First Arrived In Rome…
Near the ancient port of Rome on its Tiber River, archaeologists have found plenty of wonderful traces of the great temples and altars that once stood and functioned in this part of the City. Continue reading Point Of View: Jose Grave De Peralta – San Nicola in Carcere
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Continue reading Point Of View: Tristan Barlow’s Rome – Past, Present & Future
When I first arrived in Rome, it amazed me to see so many different types of nuns and priest walking in the streets.
Near the ancient port of Rome on its Tiber River, archaeologists have found plenty of wonderful traces of the great temples and altars that once stood and functioned in this part of the City.