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THE HEIGHTS OF THE TUSCOLO
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Fragments of the past
Author: Diego Angeloni
Travelling south east of Rome, we come to a mountainous area, a perimeter of low relief that gives rise to rather low hills which immediately curl and stretch upwards, to form a central mountainous massif, dominated by Monte Cavo, the highest peak. On these promontories of volcanic origin were built wealthy cities and monumental temples. In particular, Tuscolo established itself as one of the most influential and oldest urban agglomerations to arise in the territory of the Colli Albani,where the Latin civilisation was born and developed. This was about 500 years before the foundation of Rome. The ancient urban centre consisted of two independent areas: the rock (citadel) and the city. The rock, positioned on the mountain top, was the site of the first settlement and therefore the most ancient part.
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Author: Bill Travis
Just outside Velletri, roughly twenty miles southeast of Rome, lie two roads whose intersection has a touch of the surreal: on the one hand, the Avenue of the Soviet Union and on the other the Appian Way, a very odd couple indeed. But if the Soviet Union is no more, the Appian Way is still going strong in its twenty-third century: in the collision between ancient and modern, it is Antiquity that survived. Over time, the Appian Way has also witnessed the rise and fall of Rome,
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The drainage area of Almone was once divided by the Acqua Mariana.
Today their waters mix before reaching the valley of Caffarella.
The valley of Caffarella, created geologically following the eruption of the Laziale Volcano
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It is from the Castle (Castrum Gandulphi) built in the 17th century by the Gandolfi, a Genevan family of lords having occupied the land for at least 2 centuries, that this picturesque late medieval village takes its name. Lying on the western coastline, the delightful lake of
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Even today the Torre di MezzaVia, erected as a watch tower, seems to survey the place where two important roads to Rome meet, the Via Tuscolana and the Via Agnanina. The construction of the tower goes back to the XIII th century according to Giovanni
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The grounds of the farmhouse of the Maranella family are situated between the moat of the Acqua Mariana, the Great Ring Road, and the Capannelle Racecourse with its adjoining old Stables on the southeasten outskirts of Rome. The area, crossed by
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Latina, corresponding to 1650 kilometres of Via Anagnina. It’s composed of a complex of buildings of which the oldest is medieval, built above a roman reservoir. The reservoir of rectangular implant is from the end of 2nd. Century A.C.; the two floors was tiled, completed with large and high rams. In the building there is an ancient bath alimented by the Barbuta rural aqueduct. The name ‘Gregna derives from the family Gregni who were the owners of the farm in 500.
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There is a mystery and a magic that bind history to memory, and memory to artwork. Occupying a space between past and present, Bill Travis's astounding visions of the Appian Way challenge us to examine this otherworld where the real and the imaginary intersect. One can conceive of history as an accumulation-an amassment of events and stories, monuments and relics, which like the massive agglomeration of thousands of heavy stone blocks together form a stretch of
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