
A Lent Itinerary – The Station Churches of Rome
Today we speak about an interesting practice in Rome during Lent, a journey into a long meditation on the Passion of Christ by visiting the Station Churches of Rome from Ash Wednesday until the first Sunday after Easter. Station Churches, the word “statio” from the stations of the Via Crucis ( Stations of the Cross), […]
Travel with Kids
Travel with your kids can be a challenge but you have to know that there are local guides who can make your travel easier and fun for your kids. This June I had a small group of 23 people and 9 of them were kids from the age of 4 to the age of 16. […]
Castel Gandolfo and Papal summer residence
In Castel Gandolfo there is a a small Vatican outside the big Vatican in Rome. If you want to enjoy history of Papacy, curiosity inside the summer papal apartment, great view of a vulcano lake, old roman ruins of an imperial villa, great gardens of Popes, great roman food you have to take a day […]

Ara Pacis
ARA PACIS Rome is the city of Roman Empire and the Emperors! Let’s be introduced to the first Roman Emperor, Octavianus Augustus, by visiting the Ara Pacis, the altar of peace, built by him as an hymn to peace and to himself, the peacemaker. My interest for Augustus started when I was a teenager….. strange […]
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