Where Francesco Totti learned his Trade

Legend has it that Francesco Totti, for almost two decades the star of A.S. Roma, one of two premier-level soccer teams in the city (and the...

Riccardo Morandi's Metronio Market

Over the past century, Rome has produced two generations of great architects.   One, serving Mussolini’s Fascist regime, or simply practicin...

Rome is Burning: The People take to the Streets

A building burning ahead on via Labicana On Saturday we found ourselves much too close to some of the violence in Rome’s “Gli indignati” (“t...

A Dog in Rome

We found this guy--in a city of small apartments, atypically large--in a second-floor window in the San Giovanni neighborhood, mourning his ...