The big bargains of old may be gone, but the excitement of the search remains at Rome’s colorful Sunday morning flea market. Porta Portese is not like other Italian open air markets, it is a Read more…
The majestic complex known as Santo Spirito in Sassia sits along the Tiber close to Vatican and Castel Sant’Angelo. It has a long history, from hostel for Saxon pilgrims arriving to Rome in the early Read more…
While the Gothic style continued in northern Italy and the rest of Europe, a new, modern style was coming into its own in Florence and central Italy. In the Renaissance with its humanistic approach Read more…
Cortona’s Antiques Fair can rightly be considered the mother of Italian antiques fairs. Begun in 1963 to act as a launching pad for the town’s flourishing restoration and furniture reproduction business, the show was dedicated to Read more…
To follow the stylistic changes from Gothic times to our own century is to watch the history of art unfold. Not just the grandeur of great fresco cycles and religious architecture, but on a smaller, Read more…
Every Sunday morning for the past 50 years the network of streets in the Trastevere section between Viale Portuense and Viale Trastevere is transformed from a normal neighbourhood into one huge mass of Read more…