The Castelli Romani are a cluster of hill towns just to the
southeast of Rome. This podcast reviews a good new book that
explores four of them shows how travel can stimulate our thinking
as well as our other appetites.
Get Ready for Rome helps the thoughtful traveler prepare to visit the Eternal City by introducing the city’s main monuments and the sometimes acrimonious dialogue they imply. Add value to your visit to Rome by getting to know in advance the ideas and history that stand behind St. Peter’s Basilica, the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel and other familiar but put poorly understood sites of one of the world’s greatest cities.