I was born in Rome, and like all Romans I learned early to live alongside history — in the cobblestones, the facades, the smell of the air near the Tiber. But over time I discovered that beneath the history you can see lies another history, less told: that of science and of the men who tried to understand how the world works while building this very city.

I am a passionate student of the history of science — not an academic, but someone who reads, walks, and asks questions. Rome is one of the places in the world where scientific knowledge has left its most surprising traces: in churches used as astronomical observatories, in the gardens of papal botanists, in the palaces where cosmology and medicinal herbs were debated. Visible traces, but ones that go unnoticed by those who do not know what to look for.

This site was born from that curiosity. The itineraries you find here are journeys of discovery for those who want to see Rome with different eyes: not only as a city of art and faith, but as an extraordinary laboratory of Western scientific thought.

Welcome.

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