We woke to a beautiful day, and after a quick breakfast, made our way back up the Janiculum Hill.  At the top of Via Garibaldi, # 29, you will find the Mausoleo Ossario Garibaldino.  Built on the site of Garibaldi’s battle for the defense of the Roman Republic, the beautiful monument was designed by the…

After exploring the exhibition spaces of the Reale Accademia di Spagna, we made our way into the courtyard-like space that houses Bramante’s masterpiece!  Various monuments adorn the walls, along the side of the space. This was not my first visit to the Tempietto, but on the earlier occasions I had made the climb up the…

The Reale Accademia di Spagna is a cultural institution run by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Their headquarters and exhibition space is in the cloister of the former monastery of San Pietro in Montoro, on the Janiculum Hill, and has been since 1881.  Visitors to the Accademia also have access to the Tempietto del…

We decided to begin our day by heading up, on Via Garibaldi, to the top of the Gianicolo Hill.  Founded in 1888, by the Methodist Women’s Missionary Society, the Istituto Metodista was opened to provide an education to young women, whose families were too poor to provide them with one themselves.  The Institute was housed…