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22/09/2024

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30/07/2024

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08/01/2024

08/01/2024

Ready for a new year of hidden gems to discover? 
Rome is more than the must-sees.

We will venture off the beaten path and away from crowds.
We will time travel to the Renaissance with Raphael and Agostino Chigi the wealthiest banker of Europe who had his villa built across the Tiber, a stone’s throw away from his downtown office.
Art, politics, business, Love and intrigues spice up the story of his life and his artists.

Hoping to see you in Rome to visit the lesser known gems, I am wishing you a year of Love and abundance.

01/01/2024

2023 has been epic. I am grateful of the trust and love I have received from so many beautiful humans.
I am ready for to live 2024 to the fullest.

22/12/2023

Happy Holidays 2023 from UltimaRome. #2023

06/07/2023

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20/06/2023

Thank you !

Dopo due anni di lavori (da un milione di euro) e a quasi un secolo dalla sua scoperta, è finalmente fruibile l’Area Sacra di Largo Argentina. Il ceo Babin: «Stiamo identificando nuovi progetti per sostenere il patrimonio della nostra città»

12/08/2022

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11/08/2022

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🌾🍞 GRANO E PANE A OSTIA ANTICA – il Molino della Semita dei Cippi 🌾🍞

Meno noto del Molino del Silvano, il Molino della Semita dei Cippi è più grande: con doppio accesso, sia dal Cardine Massimo che dalla Semita dei Cippi, la via parallela che dal Decumano Massimo conduce verso Porta Laurentina.
L’edificio è articolato in maniera simmetrica: due lunghi corridoi da un lato e dall’altro di un grande ambiente centrale; in uno dei corridoi sono poste le macine in pietra lavica per la molatura della farina; nell’altro corridoio invece sono posti i contenitori concavi destinati a impastare il pane. Il pavimento, in basoli, era funzionale al lavoro degli asini che facevano girare le macine.
Del panificio si conserva in parte anche il forno a pianta circolare, mentre sui due lati affacciati sulle strade si aprivano botteghe per la vendita al dettaglio.

Per saperne di più su forni, produzione del pane e il lavoro del pistor (il fornaio) consulta il Percorso Tematico dedicato al grano e al pane a Ostia antica: https://www.ostiaantica.beniculturali.it/it/percorsi-tematici/i-luoghi-del-grano-e-del-pane/molino-della-semita-dei-cippi/

08/08/2022

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🌾🍞 GRANO E PANE A OSTIA ANTICA – Caseggiato dei Misuratori di Grano 🌾🍞

Tutto il settore alle spalle del Capitolium è occupato da complessi di magazzini, che erano in diretta relazione con le banchine fluviali. Tra questi si distingue il Caseggiato dei Misuratori di Grano, cui si accedeva da un portone d’ingresso monumentalizzato dalla presenza di due semicolonne in laterizio che inquadrano l’ingresso e un timpano in laterizio al centro del quale è raffigurato un modius, il contenitore per il grano. Il termine modius indica al tempo stesso il contenitore e l’unità di misura del grano in età romana: un modius corrispondeva a 8,75 l e tale era la capacità del contenitore. A dispetto del nome attribuito all’edificio, che richiama l’attività di misurazione del grano a cura dei mensores frumentarii, proprio per via della raffigurazione del modius sul timpano, questo caseggiato è invece un deposito di grano.

Per saperne di più consulta il Percorso Tematico dedicato al grano e al pane a Ostia antica: https://www.ostiaantica.beniculturali.it/it/percorsi-tematici/i-luoghi-del-grano-e-del-pane/caseggiato-dei-misuratori-di-grano/

14/03/2022

25/02/2022

💫!feel blessed I have been given a chance to meet so many beautiful humans.

📸This is a small selection of glimpses of my recent past and by no means inclusive of so many more gifts I have received in my long career.

🎇 Although I practise to live in the present moment these are some of my memories I won’t ever let go. They warm up my heart and fuel my desire for more life adventures.

💐Springtime is already in the air, prepping for new wonderful adventures in the Eternal city.

05/02/2022

🔒Secrets etched in stone. The rose of the winds in St. Peter’s Square hides an interesting porphyry cobble stone known as “Nero’s heart” that inspired many legends.

💔Was it sculpted by Michelangelo to heal from unrequited love? Or maybe by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in memory of his painful affair with Costanza?

☠️Furthermore, another myth refers to a woman who commissioned it in memory of her husband who was unjustly sentenced to death.

🌬The truth is that, the rose of the winds was designed by Abbot and Astronomer Filippo Luigi Gilij in 1817. As well as the Meridian line in the square.

🌿The abbot was an expert botanist and he had vegetable and herbal Garden with exotic plants imported from South America.

🍅Most probably he reversed Nero’s heart to look like a tomato as the one he had sketched in his herbal manual.

👉🏻Which version do you prefer ?.

24/01/2022

Rome by night!

It is the place that most represents the origins of Rome and Western civilization: legend has it that on this sacred hill the new city was founded.

18/12/2021

Ad Gallina Albas.
Livia’s villa 38 B.C.

🌱The imaginary painted garden of Livia’s house is a magical place that projects us into a microcosm where Nature triumphs and nourishes man.

💐It’s an extraordinary anthology of plants and flowers that are blossoming together and birds that are chirping at unison.

🌳An extension of nature into an underground banquet hall. Twenty-three types of plants and sixty-nine species of birds are depicted with realistic precision. We are projected into a garden of Eden where a new golden age awaits us.

🌲Verdant woods painted where the trees bent by the wind and the plants are diminishing in size. Imagine smelling the bracing scent of flowers overpowerly fragrant.

☝🏼A closer look, though, shows that the luxuriant plants and flowers can’t be blooming at the same time. The secrets of this artifice are finally revealed.

❣️This was Livia’s favorite property on the outskirts of Rome, her love nest where she would grow herbal and medicinal plants.

🦅Just before her wedding with emperor Gaius Octavian, a prodigy happened in the garden.
An eagle dropped in her lap a white hen that had a bay-tree branch in her beak.
🐓She was advised by the haurospices to plant the laurel branch and to raise the hen.

👑Hence, the victors’ wreaths would be made with bay leaves from this woods.

🥂What am I wishing for 2022?

🙏🏻To live in a world where man is back to live in tune with Mother Nature and where Love and happiness abound.

14/12/2021

🏺The hill of broken amphorae in Rome. Testa means brick, tile, jar made out of clay. The roman genius of disposing of 25 millions oil jars from Spain.

🗻A 120-feet-high hill of green woods stands by the Tiber river , Restaurants and homes are carved into the perimeter. And yet, a closer look even from outside reveals the unimaginable.

☝🏼Fragments of broken oil amphorae from Spain discarded with mathematical precision layered and terraced with lime for over 250 years.

⁉️Why not reusing the oil jars? Because oil gets rancid.
A unique example of selective collection of waste this is a unique example selective collection of waste and partial recycling of clay fragments into construction.
Rome never ceases to amaze me.

25/11/2021

The Arch of Acetari.
One of my fave hidden corners. A step away from the hustle and bustle of the busy squares of Rome.
Its unusual name stems from the Acetari, dealers who used to sell and distribute Acqua Acetosa, mineral water from the north of Rome that had an aftertaste of vinegar ( aceto) and iron.

It looks like time has stopped to the 1300s. With few alterations carried out in the 1600s, this picture-perfect courtyard has retained its medieval character.
Spolia, repurposed marble from Ancient ruins, greenery everywhere and the silence you experience the moment you cross the Arch, project you into an idyllic village miles away from Rome.

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11/10/2021

It’s often out of reach. The door under the Mausoleum of Alexander VII Chigi in St. Peter’s. Lately, the partitions were removed, I was able to see this wonder again.

✨Lavish baroque can be overwhelming if not explained.
This unparalleled masterpiece was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini two years before his death, at the age of 80 for Pope Alexander VII.

🪦Making sure that Papal mausoleums were finished before the death of the Pope was crucial in the past. Only God knows what could happen after their death.

💀In fact, Pope Alexander VII died without having decided about his tomb. He was assigned this uncomfortable site, right above a door of the Basilica.

It’s only the genial solution of Gian Lorenzo who could turn an obstacle into the key to understand the whole story.

🚪The door is metaphorically the threshold of death the Pope is trespassing when his time has come.
The angel of death unveiling from beneath the drape is showing the hourglass with few grains of sand left.

The pope is ready, humbly kneeling with the symbols of his power left on the ground by his side.

👉🏻The three virtues of his pontificate, Charity, Temperance and justice will be finally revealed by truth.
Naked truth who was shamefully draped by the following conservative Pope.

In perpetual dynamism , action is repeated every time we observe this mausoleum. Again, Gian Lorenzo never ceases to amaze us.

☝🏼Have you ever seen this gem this close when in St Peter’s ?

21/09/2021

👁The eyes of . This is not one of the historic sites for which Rome is known in the world but it’s now part of the city fabric.

👀Eyesight. The oh-so-much given for granted. I was exploring some hidden corners in Trastevere the other day enjoying the gorgeous weather and I passed by this social mural by .

I paused to look at the reflections of 540 eyes stenciled on the wall. A whole world unveiled.
The talented Street Artist collected pictures of people whose life connected with this hospital.

🏥 It’s a 13th century hospital that has gone through major functional changes. In March 2018, My Dog Sighs was invited by to create a social mural that would bring up the problem of re-converting former hospitals into mere health units.

These eyes tell us the story of this community and its container. The eyes of workers, of doctors, of nurses and custodians.
In curvy lines of soft ochres they reflect the iconic outline of Rome historic monuments.

🎨The large-scale art work was complex, painting directly on the wall. paint dripping, three different sized stencils and heavy hand-finished silkscreen prints.
The ultimate goal of is to reclaim the forgotten buildings in Rome city center.

🗯Don’t you think that our sense of sight is responsible for most of the information we absorb? How much does it rely on eyesight? How lucky are we to see the beauty of the world we live in?