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Visit our website for easy, secure online booking – explore tours, see live availability, and reserve your next experience in Rome, Florence, Venice, and beyond in just a few clicks. We aim to recreate the the economic, political and social contexts from which Rome's works of art were born; to follow the evolution of the city through the expansions and contractions of its urban spaces; to retrace

the crucial events of the past and the passions that inspired the actions of emperors and artists... Through Eternity's cultural itineraries let you travel through time to reach a warm June day in the first century, watching gladiator games in the Colosseum with the senate and the people of Rome, or back to November 1, 1512, reliving the scandal of the inauguration of the Sistine Chapel. A 360-degree experience of the eyes, mind and heart - to discover, to comprehend and to love the wonders and the secrets of Rome.

17/08/2026

Look closely at the walls of San Nicola in Carcere and you can see a Roman temple hiding inside a medieval church.

The church stands beside the Teatro di Marcello, on the site of the ancient Forum Holitorium, Rome’s market for vegetables and other produce. In the Republican period, three temples stood here, dedicated to gods including Janus, Spes and Juno Sospita. When San Nicola was built in the Middle Ages, the ancient buildings were not cleared away. They became part of the new church.

The clearest evidence is outside. Rows of ancient columns are still embedded in the church’s side walls, with their shafts and sections of entablature visible between the later masonry. Three more columns from the central temple appear in the façade. What looks at first like an eccentric medieval building is actually preserving the outlines of Roman temples in plain sight!

16/08/2026

This marble figure in the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican Museums is not entirely what it appears to be. The athletic body — a Roman copy of a Greek original — belongs to the idealised world of classical athleticism, all effortless physical perfection. The head sitting on top of it belongs to a specific, historical, complicated man: Lucius Aurelius Verus, co-emperor of Rome from 161 to 169 AD, his famous thick curly hair and full beard immediately recognisable from dozens of surviving portraits.

Lucius Verus himself was, by all accounts, strikingly handsome: tall, with golden hair that the Historia Augusta claims he dusted with gold powder to enhance its lustre. He was also, in the estimation of his co-emperor and adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius the man Rome needed to send east when the Parthians invaded Armenia and Syria in 162 AD. Lucius spent much of the Parthian War of 162–166 AD in Antioch and along the Syrian coast, enjoying the entertainments of the eastern cities while his subordinate generals conducted the actual fighting.

He celebrated a joint triumph with Marcus in Rome in October 166, but three years later he was dead, probably of a stroke, aged thirty-eight. His returning troops had brought the Antonine Plague with them from the east, a pandemic that would kill millions and haunt the empire for decades.

The story is complicated. The sculpture is too. Stop off to see it next time you’re in the Vatican.

15/08/2026

Buon Ferragosto from Tropea! 🌊

If you want to see how Italians spend Ferragosto, the country’s most important summer holiday, come to Tropea.

Perched on a cliff above the Tyrrhenian Sea in Calabria, Tropea is one of the jewels of the Costa degli Dei, the Coast of the Gods. The old town sits high above a sweep of pale sand and remarkably clear water, with narrow streets opening suddenly onto views across the sea. On a clear day, the outline of Stromboli rises on the horizon.

There is history here too. Tropea's origins reach back to the ancient Greek world, and its strategic position on the Calabrian coast brought Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans. The Norman cathedral, the Cattedrale di Maria Santissima di Romania, dates to the 12th century and contains a much-venerated Byzantine icon of the Virgin.

Then there is Santa Maria dell'Isola, Tropea's most recognisable landmark: a former monastery perched on a rocky promontory above the beach, reached by a long flight of steps and surrounded on three sides by the sea.

Today, those beaches and streets are thronged, as they are every August 15. Families arrive early, umbrellas spread across the sand, restaurants fill their tables and the town takes on the particular energy of Ferragosto.

For a day at the beach, a swim in impossibly blue water, and a long lunch with a view, it is difficult to imagine a better place to spend August 15.

Buon Ferragosto!

13/08/2026

In the vast cathedral of San Giovanni in Laterano, the oldest and highest-ranking church in Rome, a curious marble monument hides in plain sight just behind one of the nave’s pillars.

It marks the funeral cenotaph of Pope Sylvester II, the scholar-pope who led the Church from 999 to 1003 and who remains one of Rome’s most intriguing medieval figures.

Sylvester was gifted with a remarkable intellect. One of the most learned men of his age, he was credited with introducing advanced mathematics and astronomical knowledge to Western Europe, having spent time studying in the Islamic world and absorbing its far more developed scientific traditions.

But his formidable reputation led some contemporaries to view him with deep suspicion. Stories circulated that he had studied esoteric arts, built strange mechanical devices, and even made a pact with the devil.

From this blend of admiration and fear came the peculiar legend tied to his cenotaph here at the Lateran. According to a long-standing tradition, the marble inscription slab of Sylvester’s tomb would sweat or grow clammy at the approach of a pope’s death. Some accounts went further still, claiming that the bones themselves would begin to rattle — a skeletal alarm system, as it were, for the impending vacancy of the Holy See.

These days the cenotaph might no longer draw anxious glances from the clergy, but the legend lingers on. In Rome, nothing is ever quite as it seems.

13/08/2026

Getting from Fiumicino Airport to central Rome? Two quick money-savers most people miss.

Buy the Leonardo Express train ticket on the official Trenitalia site. It is 14 euros there, but resellers add fees and charge closer to 18. And the 55-euro flat taxi fare only applies inside the old city walls, so know your address before you get in.

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12/08/2026

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11/08/2026

On this day in 1492, after a five-day conclave, Rodrigo Borgia was elected Pope Alexander VI. It took four ballots, and although the precise details remain murky, there is little doubt that political bargaining and promises of offices and benefices played a major part in his victory. According to a colourful contemporary tradition, when the master of ceremonies asked whether he accepted his election, Borgia skipped the customary Volo — “I wish it” — and exclaimed, Sono papa! “I am Pope!”

At 61, Rodrigo had spent decades as one of the most powerful men in the papal court. He was also the father of at least four children by Vannozza dei Cattanei: Cesare, Giovanni, Lucrezia and Goffredo. His later relationship with the beautiful young Giulia Farnese became still more conspicuous. By 1493, Giulia was living beside the Vatican with her mother-in-law, Adriana de Milà, and Lucrezia Borgia, while her brother Alessandro was made a cardinal the following year. Renaissance Rome had few objections to keeping politics and private life in the same household.

And the Borgia story still has a physical address in Rome. The steep Salita dei Borgia climbs from Via Cavour towards San Pietro in Vincoli, passing beneath a medieval building traditionally associated with the family. Its balcony became known as the Balcone di Vannozza, said to be the home of Rodrigo’s long-term mistress and the mother of his four children.

10/08/2026

On the night of August 10, Romans look to the sky for the Lacrime di San Lorenzo — the “tears of Saint Lawrence,” as the Perseid meteor shower is known in Italy.

The saint himself is buried here, at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, one of Rome’s seven great pilgrimage churches. Lawrence was a deacon of the Roman Church who was martyred in 258 during the persecution of the Emperor Valerian. According to a tradition recorded by Saint Ambrose, when the authorities demanded the Church’s treasures, Lawrence gathered the poor and needy of Rome and presented them instead. “These,” he told them, “are the true treasures of the Church.”

The punishment was death on a gridiron over burning coals. Ambrose tells how Lawrence, after enduring the flames, is supposed to have joked with his executioners: “Turn me over. I’m done on this side.”

Lawrence was buried on the Via Tiburtina, where the Emperor Constantine is traditionally credited with building a memorial over his tomb. The basilica grew around it over the centuries, until much of the church was destroyed in the Allied bombing of Rome on July 19, 1943. Its meticulous restoration preserves the long history of the place.

The Perseids, of course, have nothing to do with the saint. But their appearance around his feast day gave rise to one of Italy’s most evocative pieces of folklore: Lawrence’s tears, still falling from the August sky.

10/08/2026

Santa Maria Novella is the oldest pharmacy in the world, hidden behind a door in Florence most people mistake for a church.

The perfume the monks made for Caterina de’ Medici’s royal wedding in 1533 is still on the shelves. Walk in today and you can wear the exact scent a queen wore 500 years ago.

10/08/2026

You have almost certainly walked past it. Most people do.

Palazzo Borghese sits in the Campo Marzio, between the Spanish Steps and the Tiber, its long façade stretching along Via Fontanella Borghese. For centuries it was the principal Roman residence of the Borghese family, and its unusual shape earned it the nickname il Cembalo, or the harpsichord. Romans used to call it one of the four wonders of the city.

The palace began in the 16th century and was expanded after Cardinal Camillo Borghese acquired it in 1596.

But the real surprise is inside. Pass through the entrance and the street gives way to a vast courtyard surrounded by a double portico of 96 Doric and Ionic columns. At the far end is the Bagno di Venere, an elaborate Baroque nymphaeum with statues, greenery and fountains.

This was also where the Borgheses displayed much of the art that made the family famous. Many of those works eventually moved to the Galleria Borghese in Villa Borghese.

The Spanish Embassy has occupied the first floor since 1947, while the courtyard and much of the palace remain out of everyday view. It is one of Rome's great hidden palaces—and well worth looking twice at if you are passing through the Campo Marzio.

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