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Exploring the Roman water network - Part 2 Parco degli Acquedotti Aqueducts - Water pipes in Eternal Rome Rome cherishes its cultural heritage. Three of the 11 aqueducts – the oldest dating from the 4th century BC – have been restored and are still in operation, but now only supplying the large fountain complexes . The modern water supply provided by ACEA ( Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente ) has been delivered through modern pipe networks since the early 20th century,

Exploring the Roman water network - Part 1 La Fontana delle Naiadi (Nymphenbrunnen) a Piazza della Repubblica Rome's life-giver Rome and water – an eternal alliance since ancient times. Water bubbles everywhere. Like a vast network of veins and arteries, water floods the city. No district, no suburb, no avenue, no street, no alley, no path, no corner, no square, no park, no elegant private residence, no public building without an easily accessible water source: monumental fo

Through the Porta Santa to heavenly pleasure The Papal Headquarters I'm saving it for last. For Roman Christmas Eve. La Vigilia di Natale is just the eve of Christmas in the local language, nothing particularly holy about it. The last-minute Christmas shopping business is booming. Just look at all the things Romans bring home on Christmas Eve! Cyclamen, for example, to liven up balconies and terraces that have become desolate in winter. Mistletoe sprigs for house or apartme

Stage 2: Pilgrimage on both sides of Rome's ancient city walls Via Appia Antica The Holy Year 2025 is still underway. I'm joining the pilgrimage. Three more churches are on my route, papal basilicas, but without the Porta Santa like the three large churches on my first stage and San Pietro on my third stage. Why seven pilgrimage churches? Initially, in the first Holy Year of 1300, only St. Peter's and St. Paul's, the basilicas of the two apostles, were mandatory for peniten

Stage 1: Through three Holy Doors to a new spirit Santa Maria Maggiore Ende November 2025 Time for a pilgrimage December morning. Saturday. Pure sunshine. Winter warmth. Ideal weather for pilgrimage. Roads still empty. Tank already full. Just in case. Cheerfulme, the "Pilgrim of Hope." One of the peregrinantes in spem, as the motto of the Holy Year goes. The Holy Year 2025 is drawing to a close in Rome. I want to make my pilgrimage in good time, visiting the seven pilgrimage

His artistic range between "rivoluzione e tradizione" in the Palazzo Cipolla Roma Dalí, the Surrealist That's how I've known him since my visits in the 1990s to the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida , which has one of the most extensive collections outside of Europe, and to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Dalí Museum St. Petersburg, FL An artist situated between Picasso's Cubism and De Chirico's and Magritte's Surrealism. That's what I thought for a long time. Portr

Marco Suriani makes landscapes glow next to the sports mat Marco Suriani in front of his landscape photos in the Sala Villa Aurelia Arte e Pilates In the dreary late November, with no festive pre-Christmas glamour in sight, the Villa Aurelia Sporting Club Roma cheers up weary bodybuilders with a special event. On Monday, November 24, 2025, there is an exceptional Pilates session instead of the usual Ginnastica Dolce , with which Domenico gently and sustainably gets the hea

Alphonse Mucha's monumental exhibition at the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome Trionfo di bellezza e seduzione Inspired by Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance Venus , 400 years and several painting styles later, Alphonse Mucha also dedicated himself to the "triumph of beauty and seduction". In the late 19th century, with its growing economic power fueled by thriving industrial production, Mucha created women as protagonists and advertising figures in his posters. He translated the quiet

Alexandra Kordas on alternative routes to the Roman gallery "Il Collezionista" Alexandra Kordas between death and life "Like a virgin giving birth - that's how I came to art!" My conversation with Alexandra Kordas in Rome begins with this understatement. She is exhibiting five of her large-format acrylic paintings on canvas in the small gallery "Il Collezionista." The opening is on this warm, late-summer November day. The gallery blends in almost modestly among unspectacular

October delights in the Roman city area Mark Kostabi, A Matter of Taste (2017) - Exhibition in Rome (September 2025 - März 2026) Almost a cover picture for the Ottobrata romana, the pleasurable life in October, the second Roman summer after the abundant rains of September, with milder temperatures and a more gracious sun than in the hot months of July and August. In the Kostabi painting: A meatless banquet with fruits from the fields, orchards, and vineyards on a table set i

On the potato trail across Lazio La Sagra della Patata a Leonessa Long are they gone from the fields in Lazio, since the end of summer. Harvested and bagged, the potato is now celebrated in October. La Sagra della Patata (Potato Harvest Festival) – a festival for a crop that sprouts in rich bio-diversity in Italian fields from north to south, fills the potato farmers' barns in intermediate storage, and is then carted by tractor and trailer to the villages by the hundredweight

Autumn trip to the culinary Maremma in Tuscany Maremma mia! Autumn arrives earlier in Tuscany than in Germany. Daytime temperatures in...

Retreat and regency at the gates of Rome in Tivoli Grandi Terme della Villa Adriana A villa in ancient Rome outside the city walls is not...

Carlo Magno, Frankenkaiser mit Expansionsdrang, war auch Burgherr in einem Nest nördlich von Rom? Geschichte und Legende im Tuffstein verborgen warten auf neugierige Leserschaft.

Roman summer between carovita and improvvisazione Spiaggia di Fregene, Roma Metropolitana The Roman Summer It doesn't come suddenly. Nor...