Paestum was a major Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, named Poseidonia (c. 625 BC) – later conquered by the Romans who gave Paestum its current name. Much the most celebrated features of the site today are the three large temples in the Archaic version of the Greek Doric order, dating from about 550 to […]
T-17 days until my adventure in Northern-England and Scotland and I just realized there are quite a few posts missing from my road trip around Southern Italy two years ago. Perfect timing to write them now! After cruising around Puglia and Basilicata Agropoli was my last stop before the Amalfi Coast. And I spent those two days […]
On my two evenings, I loved to just walk through “my area” – Bolognina. The air was thick and smelled like summer, roses, jasmine and many more. No wonder – there were blooms everywhere, beautiful gardens and public places. Developed in the late 19th century as a working-class neighbourhood Bolognina – “little Bologna” – today is […]