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Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Agrigento | No Comments »
... Read more..Piazza Del Popolo
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »
... Read more..Capitoline Hill
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »
The real pity about the Vittorio Emanuele Monument is that it obscures views of the Capitoline Hill behind - once, in the days of Imperial ... Read more..The Eighteenth Century To World War II
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »
The eighteenth century saw the decline of the papacy as a political force, a phenomenon marked by the occupation of ... Read more..About Alba
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Alba | No Comments »
Whether or not you want to taste wine, ALBA repays a visit, for its central core of red-brick medieval towers, Baroque and Renaissance palaces and ... Read more..History
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Turin - Torino | No Comments »
The Torinese are accustomed to absolutism. From 1574 Turin was the seat of the Savoy dukes, who persecuted Piemonte's Protestants and Jews, censored the press and placed education of the ... Read more..Arrival and information
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Catania | No Comments »
The Stazione Centrale , for all mainline trains, is in Piazza Giovanni XXIII, northeast of the centre (train information tel 147.888.088). If you're changing on to the round-Etna train, the ... Read more..Unification
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
The fall of Napoleon led to the Vienna Settlement of 1815, by which the Austrians effectively restored the old ruling class. Metternich , the Austrian Chancellor, did all he could ... Read more..