Posts tagged ‘Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain’

Yesterday afternoon I was walking down a street in Rome, wondering, “What was the name of the second church I visited this morning?” A split second later a young man in front of me turned to his two companions and asked, “What was the name of that second bar we went to?” The place was [...]

The Eternal City is a pigsty! Litter is everywhere. Dirt coats every surface and lies an inch think in the corners of the steps of every stairway. At the national Museum, right in the center of the city, trash had collected so deep in the wells surrounding the trees that the ground could no longer [...]