Five minutes from Termini, behind an anonymous side door, a ninth-century pope who may or may not have ordered two murders built...
The most perfect building of antiquity opens with a lie spelled out in bronze. The record-breaking dome, the oculus and the rain,...
For five hundred years the Deposition of Santa Felicita could only be seen through bars, one coin at a time. In Rome...
Ten million people a year come to the Trevi Fountain, and most of them turn their backs on it to throw a...
Twenty rooms, the highest concentration of Bernini sculpture in the world, six Caravaggios and a building that counts as one of the...
Six million visitors a year march through the Vatican Museums towards the Sistine Chapel and miss almost everything else. Here is an...
The Pontormo Rome exhibition opens in October. Here is a better use of the wait than counting down days: thirteen of his...
Flâneur: an itinerary engine for people who travel because of the art. Eleven cities, 22,000 catalogued works, three traveller profiles, a thousand...
Breakfast at LUNA by Faro in Rome: outstanding specialty coffee, excellent croissants and brunch, wrapped in a cosmic manifesto of conscious dining.
Stand before Bernini's David at the Borghese Gallery and see how a 23-year-old redefined sculpture, capturing the split second before the stone...