Fortean Rome?

[CarlosTheDJ]

We're off to Rome for four days in a few weeks - I've been before but MrsCarlos hasn't so we'll be doing the usual tourist hotspots...

Anyone got any recommendations for any hidden treasures? Fortean or not?

Cheers!

 

[gordonrutter]

Capuchin Monastery - dead mummified monks - what more could you want!

Gordon

 

[Mythopoeika]

Capuchin Monastery - dead mummified monks - what more could you want!

Gordon

A bit of the wonderful Italian cuisine could be added to that little list.

 

[GNC]

Capuchin Monastery - dead mummified monks - what more could you want!

Gordon

A bit of the wonderful Italian cuisine could be added to that little list.

Don't much fancy eating a dead mummified monk no matter what you serve it with.

 

[ramonmercado]

Capuchin Monastery - dead mummified monks - what more could you want!

Gordon

A bit of the wonderful Italian cuisine could be added to that little list.

Don't much fancy eating a dead mummified monk no matter what you serve it with.

I hear they make cappuccino out of them.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Capuchin Monastery - dead mummified monks - what more could you want!

Gordon

A bit of the wonderful Italian cuisine could be added to that little list.

Don't much fancy eating a dead mummified monk no matter what you serve it with.

I hear they make cappuccino out of them.

Now you're mocha-ing me.

 

[oldrover]

See as many Caravaggios as you can. Also try getting into Nero's Golden House.

 

[ginoide]

not sure, but i'm afraid the domus aurea (golden house) might be closed.
make sure you go and see the church of sant'ivo alla sapienza. little baroque jewel by borromini (bernini's rival)

 

[oldrover]

I'm sure it is, that's why I say try getting in.

 

[CarlosTheDJ]

Capuchin Monastery - dead mummified monks - what more could you want!

Gordon

A bit of the wonderful Italian cuisine could be added to that little list.

Don't much fancy eating a dead mummified monk no matter what you serve it with.

I hear they make cappuccino out of them.

Well, we went to the Capuchin Monastery....and it was indeed extremely creepy.

...and by the way...."cappuccino" was named after these very monks! Same colour as their robes, apparently.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

A bit late to benefit the OP but a friend recently returned from Rome was delighted by the Galleria Doria Pamphilj:

Virtual visit Here

There is a lurid back-story to the inherited wealth that caused a rift between the adopted orphan heirs to this palace!

 

[Stormkhan]

They've opened up the Golden House again!

 

[JamesWhitehead]

delighted by the Galleria Doria Pamphilj:

Five years after posting that, I got to see it myself and it was astonishing. We landed up there as a consolation-prize, because the queues for the Vatican in high-season were ridiculous. The Doria Pamphilj Gallery was so quiet, we had it almost to ourselves. You pass, in awe, through rooms of priceless treasures, peer into a side-gallery and find yourself confronting the original of Bacon's Screaming Pope! Just another of that family!

While I'm about it, the same ancient family owned a villa by the sea at Genoa, which was the highlight* of our brief visit there last November.

*A dead-heat, really, with the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the Art Gallery. Now that was lurid!

 

[Stormkhan]

Decades ago (literally) I visited Genoa.
I loved it. Especially the nearby Rapallo. With the 'titan statue' nearby.