Cinzia has always wanted to be a real story-telling tourist guide. Why? – because more than anyone we know she has a passion for Romagna’s glorious past –that it was capital of the Roman Empire no less than three times, that it houses some of the most tear-jerkingly beautiful mosaics and world heritage sites in the world, that it was the scene for world changing events.
But more – that Romagna, full of dramatic stories of passion, of intrigue, of sex and lust and power of art and artefact, of scandal of loss and gain – is simply a story-tellers paradise.
“ Cinzia took us by our hands and led us there… Right into Ravenna 5ad. In the Basilica of San Vitale we met Theodora the dancing girl mascot of the charioteers who became empress in a love match with Emperor Justinian. Inside what seemed like an enormous Byzantine domed dark blue jewel box we met the empress Galla Placidia in this, her mausoleum. Here this shockingly powerful woman created her own final resting place festooned with deeply-coloured mosaics glistening to us now as though they were made and polished yesterday or, indeed today…”
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But more – that Romagna, full of dramatic stories of passion, of intrigue, of sex and lust and power of art and artefact, of scandal of loss and gain – is simply a story-tellers paradise.
“ Cinzia took us by our hands and led us there… Right into Ravenna 5ad. In the Basilica of San Vitale we met Theodora the dancing girl mascot of the charioteers who became empress in a love match with Emperor Justinian. Inside what seemed like an enormous Byzantine domed dark blue jewel box we met the empress Galla Placidia in this, her mausoleum. Here this shockingly powerful woman created her own final resting place festooned with deeply-coloured mosaics glistening to us now as though they were made and polished yesterday or, indeed today…”
www.toursinravenna.it
