Get Ready for Rome

Arts & Culture Podcasts

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...

Episodes

Love Among the Castelli Romani

108. From the Cattle Market to the Palatine and from Aeneas to Romulus

107. The Two Temples of the Forum Boarium

106. The Forum Boarium and Rome's Mythical Prehistory

105. The Making of Modern Italy

104. Where are we?

103. A Pope's View of a Modern Problem

102. The Secularism of Modern Rome

101. Michelangelo's Last Judgment

100. The Four Corners of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling

99. The Subjects Represented on Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling

98. The Design of the Sistine Ceiling

97. Botticelli’s Facing Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel

96. Reintroducing the Sistine Chapel

95. The Overlooked Side Walls of the Sistine Chapel

94. Introducing the Sistine Chapel

93. The Disappearance of Ancient Rome (Part II Lanciani)

92. D-Day and the Liberation of Rome, June 1944

2.6: D-Day and the Liberation of Rome, June 1944

91. The Destruction of Ancient Rome (Part I Gibbon)