Trastevere conjures up many emotions for travelers to Rome and there are many things to do. First, there are the restaurants with red and white checkered tablecloths and the accordion players serenading diners as they enjoy steaming plates of spaghetti carbonara. Next, you have the ever-present lines of laundry weaving through sunny alleyways as if…
“Rome is dangerous” This is a rather silly idea that I think outdated guidebooks must have instilled in people’s minds in the past. Rome, any way you paint it, is not a scary or dangerous city. In fact little changes between daylight and moonlight, and very few areas are really nasty and scary places…
Venice is even more charming in person than it is in pictures and movies. Built on 118 small islands separated by canals, it is arguably one of the most unique cities in Italy. To get from island to island, you must go by foot – crossing numerous bridges, or by water – traveling in a…
So I have been tour guiding for 9 years now, almost daily at the Vatican Museums. Alas, is where the greatest art of the world is concentrated. When you are a guide in Rome, you are either there or at the Colosseum, or both! After doing tour after tour at the Vatican Museums, I noticed…
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower) is the largest church in Florence, Italy. It includes the famous Duomo (dome), which at the time it was built was the largest dome in the world. To this day, it is still the largest brick dome ever constructed. The dome…