For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

28 x 23 cm. (11 x 9.1 in.) The Ponte dei Quattro Capi is the oldest bridge in Rome still preserved in its original state. It was built in 62 B.C. by the curator for roads Lucius Fabricius and, as a ...

Ignoring the humble dusky nave, she led me straight to the church’s crowning glory: the apse mosaic of the enthroned Christ, commonly considered Rome’s oldest Christian mosaic. “The faces ...

In anticipation of the Jubilee and the expected increase in visitors – up to 35 million, a major rise from the 7-10 million who visit every year – Rome has had a facelift. Piazzas are spruced ...

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to be a ... budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ...