Jason Priestly has just arrived in Rome with wife and children in tow! The American actor who became famous thanks to his role in the Beverly Hills 90210 series back in the 1990s is spending a short holiday in Italy’s capital! Despite the heat wave which has hit the Eternal City, the Priestly Family is bravely touring the city and enjoying every single minute of it (as you can see from the pics!)

Jason Priestley’s roman summer

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Writer James Joyce did not love Rome which he used to describe as a man who lives by exhibiting to travellers his grandmother’s corpse, but years have passed since those days and now foreign magazines and newspapers tend to praise Rome to the sky, though sometimes they do lament inefficiency in local government . Now going back to the praise, I have recently read two interesting and very enthusiastic articles about Rome; one by Keith Miller for the Telegraph and the other by Tom Fort! Both seem to see Rome as one of the best places where to live! The only sore point, according to these articles, is the Circus Maximum which people should avoid - too many bikers, joggers and wide boys!

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The Galleria Palatino on Coronari street in Rome is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the paintings which painter Gianna Paola Cuneo has created between 1948 and 1950; a series of paintings depicting the stunning landscapes of Positano and the Amalfi coast. Gianna Paola Cuneo who made a name for herself in Chicago with a series of rather austere paintings, changed her style and attitude to art only when she returned to Italy and fell in love with the lovely town of Positano and the enchanting Amalfi coast. The exhibition will be on view until December 10th.

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This morning while I was walking down a street in Rome I came upon what I deem it to be the first Christmas tree of the season! Usually here in Italy people start to decorate their trees on 8th December, but this time someone has decided to go one better and put up the Christmas tree one month earlier!

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Immersed in the green countryside around Rome, this luxury villa has 26 rooms elegantly arranged on two floors; the building, surrounded by an excellently maintained park, is 754 square metres in size. On the ground floor the property has a living room and library with direct access to the 2 ha park; the top floor has several bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms. The villa also features a basement with kitchen, reception room and poolroom. Located in an area well served by public transport, this luxury property will set you back 2,48 million euros!

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Next Sunday (September 26) the baths of Trajan, a massive bathing and leisure complex in Rome, will celebrate its 1900th birthday. For the occasion, after eleven years, the famous Sette Sale or Seven Rooms,will be open to public for a whole afternoon. We are of course talking about the amazing cistern which used to hold over 9 million cubic metres of water; a prodigious amount of water which was discharged for the pleasure of the Romans. The huge cistern, located on the edge of Collo Oppio Park, is made up of nine rooms; each room measures 5,3 metres x 29,3 metres (some of these rooms sometimes even reaches 39,75 metres in length)

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