Rome was lost. Citizens were dying. This was 1522 and not the black death of 1348, Nevertheless the cultural memory must have been...

If sightseeing in Padua has worn you out, take the time to relax at the Prato delle Valle. The Italian word ”prato” means "meadow", and...

Every city needs a story - and Padua has a story that matches up with the greatest of them, tracing its founding to Antenor, a refugee from the city of Troy, thereby establishing the founding date of 1184 BC, the traditional date of the fall of Troy. The Trojan War was the biggest event of the ancient period - the generic time we think of as “Antiquity”, or what we think of when we hear “Greece and Rome”. Even today we know the phrase, “the face that launched a thousand ship