Detail of a scene somewhere between mythological and costumbrista by the Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. CABC
vacation to the past
In villas surrounded by vegetation and aquatic constructions, the patricians slept in summer “with the doors of their chamber open and where they also had a slave in charge of fanning them”
The ancient Romans had shopping malls, took siestas, drank wine with friends, lived in blocks of buildings, caught traffic jams and laughed at things very similar to that of today’s Spaniards. And they also went on vacation, if they…
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