Author: Adee

After an hour’s ride from the airport, which is about 40 miles away, and an introduction to Roman driving, we arrived about 1:30pm at the booked hotel in a lovely quiet neighborhood inside the old walls of the city. With great apology, the desk manager said our rooms weren’t ready and offered transfer to another…

On our trip we visited magnificent churches representing diverse architectures and decorations. No such thing like you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, especially not if you’ve had a year of college art history. Well worth the feet sore from walking all day and now through another and sometime sore neck from looking skyward at…

Meanwhile, back at the Pantheon (118-125 AD) there is still great wonder amongst architects and engineers as to how the Romans built that dome without reinforcing the concrete and what keeps it from falling. The exterior is almost Spartan in its simplicity, basically a bare concrete drum with the gently curving dome above, unadorned with…