Welcome to a site mainly about history and photography in Italy. Most of the posts deal with places in Italy and their history, and are illustrated by my own photography – large, medium and small format. Other posts deal with related subjects such as my photography, books about history and Italy, and anything else which seems relevant. Sometimes I just feel like celebrating le cose Italiane.
Three of my loves are Italy, history and photography, so this seemed a good way to indulge all of them at once.
You can find a lengthier self-introduction, and the reason behind the name of the blog, here.
All images on this site are my own and are copyright, unless explicitly identified otherwise. Each image is set to open at a higher resolution in a separate browser tab if you click on it, so I do recommend doing that if possible, especially if you are looking at this site on a computer, a tablet or a larger phone.
Occasionally people enquire about whether I allow use of my images. The answer is yes, for non-commercial purposes and with attribution and a link to this site. For commercial purposes, the answer is… probably. But the images I publish on this blog have been reduced in size and compressed for web use, which does limit their quality – I can make them available in the original format on request. For any request regarding reproduction, you can contact me through the comments field at the bottom of any post.
And yes, the photo in the title was taken by me, and no, I did not use a coloured filter. You can read about how I took it here.
Posts
You can find the entire blog, most recent post first, here.
I used to have a list attached to this page as well, but the WordPress plugin I was using was flagged as having a security problem, so I have had to disable it.
A note about AI
Nothing on this site – text or images – is AI-generated, although I sometimes use ChatGPT as an aid when researching a topic. Where I link to an external site, or use a public-domain image, I cannot rule out that AI-generated material may be encountered.
In 2025 and 2026 the number of views of this site more than doubled each year, but I know that most of the growth, unfortunately, is bots taking my material to build large language models (unless the interest from Chinese people in topics like Roman roads in Italy has suddenly soared).
Since I don’t derive any income from this site I can’t argue any material harm, but I do feel sorry for people who do generate an income stream from this sort of writing. One thing I do is where AI provides me with citations I try and remember to click through to the source pages so the authors get the benefit of the views.