The Bronzi Dorati are four gilded bronze statues which were presumably made between the 50s and 30s BCE. They comprise two Roman men on horseback and two Roman women on foot who all belong to the same aristocratic family. Since they can be counted among the most important archaeological finds…
During our last vacation in Italy we really wanted to do something “local”, to see things that other tourists would not see so easily, to talk to the Italians, to be pleasantly surprised. When we visited the charming town of Pergola, we were handed a sheet of paper that announced…
I cannot recall how exactly we learned of the existence of this small oratory along the main road through Pergola. The oratory was not mentioned in our travel guide, so we must have found it somewhere on the Internet. Our first attempt to get inside ended in failure: the door…
The former church of Santa Maria di Piazza is the oldest and certainly the most interesting of all the churches in the charming town of Pergola. The history of the church is said to go back at least a millennium. According to tradition it was founded in the first decade…