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Tag: Mandawar

India / Rajastan

2000 – Rajastan: The Road to Mandawar

Our driver Mr Singh was late this morning due to heavy traffic inDelhi traffic, but then there is always heavy traffic in Delhi. But he did eventually show up and …

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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.
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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--

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

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