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16/12/2025

A special Jubilee! Thanks 🥰 to AGTA - Associazione Guide Turistiche Abilitate, my professional association, which, with the help of Savelli Religious https://youtu.be/U_BYzrukuCc?si=qbZXjy7x8NbqO2LZ, made this moment possible!

A special thanks for the music, from Le Nozze di Figaro di Mozart "Voi Che Sapete", to the Mezzo Soprano Anneliese Von Koenig

Eccomi dietro la macchina fotografica a riprendere i bellissimi colleghi, guide turistiche a Roma e fuori, che hanno partecipato al Giubileo degli operatori ...

25/05/2025

Pasquino is a marble legend.. under the Pope king anonymous messages were hang on him to make fun of the powerful ones. Still today every two days a message appears in Roman dialect.
Today, he reminds us that:
"Yes, I am made of marble, and I do not deny it, but for thousands of years, even if it does not seem so to you, with this stone mouth I have refuted the arrogance of those who have the power of life and death over an oppressed people, and I do not care about money or blackmail.

You, on the other hand, seem alive, but you have a stone in your heart. And you remain silent while another executioner massacres and starves people, without even changing your expression. We said "never again," but now it's happening again. You are the same people who, here in Rome, shrugged your shoulders and didn't see the people disappearing and the roundups. But remember:

marble is hard, and it never forgets. Today we can see who is with the executioners and who is with the poor. Those who see the massacre in Palestine and say nothing, don't come and tell me you're human, because that's indecent. (Now I'll wrap myself in this shroud so I won't forget those who suffer in Calvary)."

23/03/2025

I guided a wonderful family from Chicago for different Rome private tours for three days. I'm happy they felt important to share their feedback with me, and somehow I felt I had to share it too! ,🥳🌻🍀🌞🥂🍾

17/01/2025

Are you in this weekend? Take advantage of our , , and !

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02/12/2024

Why take a while you are traveling?
If you find me, also only on FB, you know probably better than most people why.
But the words of Rick Steves are of a certain authority.
So I decide to link here this article: https://www.islands.com/1722969/one-luxurious-thing-splurge-professional-tour-guide-rick-steves-always-worth/

P.s. I always wonder about the power of . When I was young, I worked in a place where his assistant came, and the next year, in his , it was written that we were a group of passionate. The place developed quickly in a business trying to take advantage of passionates to gain as much as possible.
After more than 10 years, it has a lot of qualities with a big dark side. From a small dark cellar, it became a fancy environment with more than ten toilets. After 10 years, the words in the are still the same. 😅🤫

Travel expert Rick Steves claims this is the best thing to spend a little extra money on while on your vacation to really appreciate the place you’re in.

30/11/2024

(...) It quickly recognizes that “bread and circuses” is only a Band-Aid for an unhappy populace, but has a nihilistic “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” attitude.

It’s interesting that both current would lean on that premise right now, during a time of great dissatisfaction in . Sure, we don’t have anymore, but we do have streaming services pumping us with more prestige programming than we know what to do with. And are you not ?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/29/ancient-rome-hollywood-gladiator-ben-hur/

“Gladiator II” follows an ancient Hollywood formula for depicting Rome.

25/11/2024

If you don't know what to give for and the person you would like to buy something is a lover of the and of Italy, I might have a suggestion for you: A Happy Man, In Conversation with . It's a I'm reading since I had the luck to meet and guide its Author since some parts of the story took place in .

So I also contributed with my professional skills to it.
He was a famous and as Rome was the on the River and the was financing our industry and making it convenient for American producers, managers, movie makers, actresses, and actors to live in .

It's the time of with and , , and to quote just the most famous.

For more information, you can check the website: www.rbrazzi.com

22/11/2024

Movement of and to :

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20/11/2024

(...) Continued from the previous post:
As for , there is no need to argue the proximity of the issues to current policies: indeed, it might happen, before long, to see the entire governmental formation in togas, intent on celebrating novi ludi. Airbnb would certainly be happy to fund the initiative, to promote Europe's historical .

Maddalena Giovannelli teaches at the University of Italian Switzerland and works on ancient theater in the contemporary. She writes in Sole 24 Ore's "Domenica," "Stratagemmi," and "Doppiozero."

If you're training your Italian here you will find the original text:

L’uscita del nuovo film di Ridley Scott, sequel del classico contemporaneo con Russell Crowe, è primo al box office anche perché ha affascinato gli spettatori per le molte curiosità legate all’epoca romana e ai valori del mondo antico. Con qualche confusione.

20/11/2024

(...) Continued from the previous post:
What values then does celebrate through his protagonist and his film? Should we consider the "first Annon's" critical gaze against the violence inherent in an empire, or rather the "second Annon's" rhetorical emphasis on the restoration of cherished old values? Is the realization of his dream a new world of free and equal, or the restoration of a more balanced society, but one still founded on conquest and war? In such obvious value ambiguity, the screenplay's obsessive hammering on the theme of an elusive "Roman Dream"-very familiar to U.S. audiences-cannot go unnoticed.

The film's shooting, after all, began in the midst of the election race, only to deliver the finished product to an America that has chosen as its new president. Curiously, Kamala insisted in her campaign on themes very similar to those present in the first part of the film (America as a place of welcoming the different, of meritocratic opportunities open to all), while her challenger called for a return to a lost golden age, founded on the the values that triumph in the film's close. Gladiator II could thus easily have appeased both presidents, pulling the broad blanket of the American Dream a little to one side or the other. (...) To be continued in the next post.

20/11/2024

(...) Continued from the previous post:
But beyond the intentional - an entitlement of every fiction screenwriter- a certain value and ideological confusion emerges. In one of the film's early scenes, the protagonist Annon (Paul Mescal) participates in the defense of an African city in Numidia (which was actually long since a Roman province): the warrior, ready to die for freedom alongside his fellow citizens, swears his eternal hatred to Rome's imperialism. Until about halfway through the play, The Gladiator II seems to move in an almost post-colonial ethical horizon: we look through the eyes of Annon- who presents himself as a stranger, a foreigner, a different- at the horrors of slavery, the thirst for war and expansion of the kingdom, the constitutive infection of a society founded on the exercise of violence. Then, suddenly, the protagonist changes disposition, without the script bothering too much to accompany such a radical transformation: now Annone wishes to bring back the ancient "Roman dream," that is, the splendors of the very first empire. Our hero, driven by a new restorative force, seems, in short, to be unaware that even in the glorious days of Augustus Rome used to rout foreign cities and reduce populations to .
(...) To be continued in the next post.

20/11/2024

Continued from the previous post:
Scott arrives almost ninety years into the Gladiator sequel, giving fans a spectacular legacy continuation of the events of Maximus Meridius (Russell Crowe): that is, the path of enfranchisement and self-affirmation of his son Lucius Verus, sent to slavery in Numidia and now ready to rediscover his true roots.

As in previous colossals (e.g., Exodus and Napoleon), the director makes no secret of being far more faithful to visual impact than to historical credibility. To make this clear begin the captions projected at the film's opening, which are at once a statement of intent and an attempt on the hearts of the scholars in the audience: the story we are about to watch is set sixteen years after the death of Marcus Aurelius, during the reign of the twin emperors Geta and Caracalla (blond, ephebic, and villainous just like Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones). The dynastic dates do not add up, and the two brothers (not twins) reigned together for only one year, and a full fifteen years later. But this is just one of the film's nonchalant inconsistencies: the Capitoline she-wolf stands out, with twins added by Antonio del Pollaiolo in the 15th century, on the second-century entrance arch to Rome; above the tomb of the Roman gladiator Maximus stands out an inscription carved on the wall in English; or a pack of Spielbergian sharks swims in the water-filled Colosseum (while already around 90 AD the structure could no longer be flooded for naval battles). (...) To be continued. See next post.