Category Archives: A Brief History

For the past six months I have not been able to go outside wearing anything less than three layers and a scarf, and that is usually braving it. For the past three months, though, I have been dreaming of waking … Continue reading →

What were you doing in August of 79 AD? Well, if you lived in Pompeii, you would have just been buried under 70 feet of volcanic ash and pumice from the eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius. A once busy commercial … Continue reading →

Not having left Florence for nearly two months, save for a few day trips around Tuscany, I started to get a bit antsy and felt the need to be somewhere new for more than a day. Luckily, this past week … Continue reading →

What do you do when you get an extra week off for winter break? Go on (another) trip! Having just gotten home from my trip to Paris and Amsterdam I wanted to go somewhere different, somewhere slightly unexpected. Instead of … Continue reading →

Six days in Paris? Sign me up. For over two millennia, Paris has been one of the world’s leading cultural, social, and business centers. Habitation of the Paris area dates from around 4200 BC. Since then Paris has gone through … Continue reading →

I just got back to my (temporary) home from a ten-day trip with Kaitlin, one of my close friends who is visiting from Califonia. One of our destinations was Amsterdam, the infamous and stereotypically liberal capital city of Holland. Settled … Continue reading →

Every school trip we go on is targeted toward a certain area of study; the history and classics students had their turn in Cerveteri and Rome, the architecture students in Padova and Vicenza, and us art history students finally had … Continue reading →

Vicenza, our final stop in our trip to northern Italy, is a cosmopolitan city with a rich history and culture. Settled by various tribes during the third and second centuries BCE, it was conquered by the Romans in 157 BCE. … Continue reading →