Blog: Discover Italy

Does anyone else out there have a child who has a favorite Roman Emperor? I am assuming probably not. My daughter became obsessed with the Roman Emperor Commodus after watching Ridley Scott’s Gladiator starring Russell Crowe. On a recent trip to Rome, while visiting the Vatican Museum we wandered into a gallery of Roman sculpture. All of the sudden, my daughter went running down the room, yelling, “There’s Commodus”. In a room full of hundreds of Roman busts and statues, …

I don’t know how many times I have visited Rome, but each time I discover new places that I have never seen before. I think you could probably spend a lifetime in Rome and never see all the sights. A few months ago, I was in Rome with my tour book in hand and all the locations I had yet to see marked. One was the Basilica Santi XII Apostoli (The Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles), which is the final resting place of the Apostle James The Less and the Apostle Philip. In the past, I had v …