The Three Romes: Papal Pilgrimage City
NB: This post owes its historical content both to the previously mentioned “History of European Urbanization,” and also to an excellent lecture I tagged along for given to Prof. Saloojee’s […]
NB: This post owes its historical content both to the previously mentioned “History of European Urbanization,” and also to an excellent lecture I tagged along for given to Prof. Saloojee’s […]
NB: What follows is highly cribbed from my notes of the excellent “History of European Urbanization” course taught by Robert Ostergren at UW Madison, Spring 2004. Rome began as a […]
Monday I will have been in Rome for a week and I have yet to post about it yet, although I have taken (just checked) eight hundred and eighteen photographs […]
I spent only three quarters of an hour in Pisa (we arrived at the end of the day, just at sunset and after the church was closed to visitors) but I […]
Another walled city for my collection, Lucca was a lovely afternoon’s stroll. I enjoyed the marble fronted churches, the roman circus turned into a piazza and lined with medieval houses, […]