The Centrale Montemartini is one of my favourite museums in Rome and, in my opinion, it’s a must-see in town. This is because I believe it is a perfect example of the recovery of Roman industrial archaeology to give it a new use; this in addition to the very particular contrast between the structures of…Continue Reading
At the beginning of 2024, thanks to an advertisement, I discovered the possibility of visiting the Colleferro air raid shelters. These are tunnels dug under the city of Colleferro, in fact, and which were used during the Second World War to protect the citizens from enemy air raids. They extended for about 6 km and…Continue Reading
The Muso delle mura is located inside Porta San Sebastiano, one of the largest and best preserved of the Aurelian Walls. The museum is divided into three sections – ancient, medieval and modern – through which it traces the history of the city’s fortifications, from the royal and republican age to Aurelian in the 3rd…Continue Reading
Anagni is one of those villages in Lazio that, for years, remained on the list of places to see without me being able to organize my visit. Known as the city of the Popes, Anagni is the city of origin of four popes and has long been the papal residence. In the historic city centre,…Continue Reading
Last January (2024), the Celio Archaeological Park and the Forma Urbis Museum reopened to the public, inside the building of the Ex Palestra della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio. A museum that houses a jewel of ancient Rome, which restores a part of the city’s history represented on a map (or what remains of it); therefore,…Continue Reading
The Piana delle Orme Museum is a park museum in the province of Latina, where approximately 50,000 finds are preserved and exhibited. The finds are organized in thematic pavilions. Everything is contextualized with the territory, as the finds are organized temporally, from the reclamation of the Agro Pontino to the Landing of Anzio during the…Continue Reading
