Sorrento While staying for a few days in Sorrento this summer, I took time to visit the Museo Correale di Terranova. This opened in 1924, the result of Count Alfredo Correale and his brother Pompeo, donating their works of art, housed in the Villa alla Rota, an impressive eighteenth-century residence. The museum collection is on … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 209
Pompeii During the trip to Italy this summer, I managed to take in Pompeii, a place I had always wanted to visit. I was aware of the basic history of the site and the tragedy that took place during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, burying the city in ash, but that … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 208
Phoenician Steps During a trip to Italy in the summer, initially staying in Positano and then moving onto Sorrento, it was a short hop from there to Capri, an island situated in the bay of Naples. Fortunately I wasn’t going for the shopping, as it is very expensive. However, it does have the Scala Fenicia … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 207
Ancona The highlight of visiting the city of Ancona – a main seaport in Italy on the Adriatic Sea – was to view the Arch of Trajan. Erected by the Romans in 115 AD, it is a magnificent structure. To get out of the port is a fair walk and then the road along to … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 204
Trieste Trieste is the capital city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. It’s a port city, situated on a thin strip of land between the Adriatic coast and the border of Slovenia. It is where the Irish writer James Joyce lived and worked between the years 1904 to 1920. Having read his … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 203
