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Italy / Rome

The curious tale of the Laocoön and his sons

On January 14, 1506, a farmer named Felice da Fredis was digging up his vineyards in the Esquiline Hill and discovered a concealed chamber. Inside was one of the most …

Italy / Lazio-Rome / Rome

2009 – Rome; Vatican,Trastevere and the Ancient City

The Italian word for history is La Storia, the same word for the english us for a story. The truth is not in the facts, it’s in the telling. Here are …

Welcome to our website.

Jonathan and Gretchen

This site is filled with historical anecdotes, observations and photos. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Jonathan Rome & Gretchen Van Horne

Ancient Monuments of Rome

  • Roman Portraits
  • April in Rome
  • Ancient water and the Park of the Aqueducts
  • Pausylipon: Imperial Villa, ancient tunnels and eels
  • The most beautiful Piazza in Rome
  • A great day in the ancient city – 2016
  • The Walls and Gates of Rome
  • Finding Pompey’s Theater in the Campo Marzio
  • Saving the Mausoleum of Augustus
  • Nero’s Golden Palace is Open (Again) – 2014
  • The Pantheon and Piazza della Rotondo
  • The Coliseum – Fact and Fiction
  • The curious tale of the Laocoön and his sons
  • Secrets of the Castel Sant’Angelo

Churches and Architecture of Christian Rome

  • The most beautiful Piazza in Rome
  • Vicus Scelerata and the Evil Steps
  • A great day in the ancient city – 2016
  • Mussolini’s Architectural Legacy in Rome
  • Christmas in Rome
  • 2006 – Rome; Christmas, Zampognari and Santo Bambino
  • “Saints be Praised” – The Relics of Rome
  • Byzantine treasures of Rome
  • Secrets of the Castel Sant’Angelo

Modern Rome

  • April in Rome
  • Mussolini’s Architectural Legacy in Rome
  • A great day in the ancient city – 2016
  • The (not so Spanish) Spanish Steps
  • September in Rome – 2015
  • The Life and Death of Via dei Fori Imperiali: 1932-2015
  • Take the A train to Cinecittà
  • Protect yourselves against Con Artists, Pickpockets and Thieves of Rome
  • Eating well in Italy (the more you know, the less you pay)
  • Attack on Rome!
  • 2013-Rome; A day in the life of a great city
  • 2013-Rome; Everything Old is New Again
  • Cucina Romana – the tradition of eating in Rome
  • ‘Sampietrini’ – The streets of Rome

Mysteries and Legends of Rome

  • Vicus Scelerata and the Evil Steps
  • The (not so Spanish) Spanish Steps
  • Great Caesar’s Ghost, Rome is Haunted
  • Satire, Graffiti and Talking Statues
  • Legends of the Trevi Fountain
  • “Saints be Praised” – The Relics of Rome
  • Legends of the Trevi Fountain
  • The curious tale of the Laocoön and his sons

Following the Roman Empire

  • Greece and the Roman Empire
  • Athens in the Roman Empire
  • Ancient Greece in Sicily – Akragas (Agrigento)
  • Ancient Greece in Sicily – Segesta vs. Selinunte
  • Ancient Greece in Sicily – The rise of Syracuse
  • Pausylipon: Imperial Villa, ancient tunnels and eels
  • Provence – The Roman Province along the via Domitia
  • Provence – The Roman Province along the via Agrippa
  • Provence – The Roman Province along the via Julia
  • Emerita Augusta – Mérida, Spain
  • Verona: Ancient Rome, Medieval Warlords and Romeo and Juliet tourism
  • Istanbul and Ancient Constantinople
  • 2013-Thessaloniki, Byzantine city on the Gulf of Salonica
  • Croatia; Split and Trogir
  • 2010 – Rome, Tivoli, Tarquinia and Centrale Montemartini
  • 2007 – Ephesus and the Aegean Coast of Turkey
  • 2006 – Western Sicily; Palermo and the ruins of Magna Grecia
  • 2003 – Sicily; Mt Etna, i Ciclopi, Piazza Armerina, Enna, Siracusa, Taormina
  • 2000 – Pompeii and Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast

Museums and Monuments of Rome

  • The (not so Spanish) Spanish Steps
  • The curious tale of the Laocoön and his sons
  • Take the A train to Cinecittà
  • Saving the Mausoleum of Augustus
  • Nero’s Golden Palace is Open (Again) – 2014
  • The Pantheon and Piazza della Rotondo
  • Secrets of the Castel Sant’Angelo

Welcome to Rome on Rome!

We do the Romans a disservice if we heroize them, as much as if we demonise them. But we do ourselves a disservice if we fail to take them seriously – and if we close our long and complicated conversation with them.
-Mary Beard-

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Welcome to Rome on Rome!

We do the Romans a disservice if we heroize them, as much as if we demonise them. But we do ourselves a disservice if we fail to take them seriously – and if we close our long and complicated conversation with them. ---Mary Beard--

Recent Posts

  • Roman Portraits
  • April in Rome
  • Athens in the Roman Empire
  • Greece and the Roman Empire
  • Ancient water and the Park of the Aqueducts

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