The banquet hall’s three walls (the room opened out into a garden ... and fertility. In ancient Rome, cults dedicated to various gods often operated with secrecy. Their rituals were mysterious ...

Inside an unremarkable looking building in the middle of Rome is one of the city's most opulent galleries. In the Colonna Gallery, you'll find a vast, baroque hall full of works of art.

It would have been a shocking sight in the desolate wilderness, 630 miles north of Rome itself. “The wall here was plastered and painted,” Hüssen says. “Everything was square and precise.

Work on City Hall and the Griffo Green has been ongoing since the end of August 2023, paid for with funding from the state Downtown Revitalization Initiative and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.