We continued to explore the small museum in the Palazzo delle Poste, on Piazza di San Silvestro. In the center of the museum area, you will find a memorial to Ernesto D’Amico, who was the general director of the Italian Telegraph Company, and was responsible for the start of the collection of telegraphic equipment and…

A plaque, on the front of a building, tells us that, from 1802 until 1820, the artist, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,  lived on the street, along which we were walking. A plaque, on Via della Mercede, tells us that this is where Gian Lorenzo Bernini lived and died.  Actually, the artist lived, worked, and died across the…

The Sacalinata di Trinità dei Monti, or the Spanish Steps, as it is more commonly known, dates from 1723.  The staircase was designed by the architect, Francesco de Sanctis, to connect the Pincian Hill, with the Piazza di Spagna below.  It is made up of 11 flights of stairs, each consisting of 12 steps.  Each…

The Palazzo Margherita is located on Via Veneto.  It takes its name from the fact that it served as the home of Queen Margherita of Savoy, from 1900 until her death, in 1926.  The palazzo dates from 1886, and was designed by Gaetano Koch, for Rodolfo Boncompagni-Ludovisi, the Prince of Piombino.  At the time, it…