Month: July 2014

In our Medieval History and Dante’s World course, we studied historical events, political and social change, literature and language history from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to The Black Plague when Medieval times ended and the Italian renaissance began. This course was especially interesting due to our setting in the Midieval walled town of Viterbo. I could listen to Professor Marco for hours without getting bored! He is truly an expert in many related topics.

Our class field trip to Tuscania showed the development of the Midieval town through the ages. Midieval towns had two city centers, one for the Church cathedral and one for the city administrators. We saw architecture styles from the Etruscan, Roman and Medieval  times.

If you can’t beat them, join them!

There are many cats living on their own in Italy. Far more cats than Huskys!  To help the stray cats, people can keep “cat colonies”.

Blizzard decides to chill with the cool cats and take a break from all the walking.

Monster Park of Bomarzo, Italy, in the Viterbo province of Lazio, is a Midieval park of statues and buildings in the woods, built by Duke Pierfrancesco “Vicino” Orsini, during the 1550’s in memory of his late wife. It became overgrown and hidden to locals whose kids had “seen monsters” in the woods, and went running. Restoration began in the 1960’s and Monster Park now takes visitors.