A Gazetteer of Europe

[ 3/14/05: 1129 pages, 1337 photos, 278 engravings,
23 plans, 16 maps, about 300 offsite links ]

Italy: Ten days in Orvieto and Todi in 1993, followed by a 2‑month stay in Todi in the fall of 1994, during which I hiked nearly 500 km of the countryside around Todi, and 8 more months in two stays in Spello in 1997 and 1998, a 3‑month stay in Fossato di Vico and a 3‑month stay in Umbertide during all of which I hiked a total of 1500 more kilometers in the region, provide a good site on Umbria; sites on Rome, Ostia Antica, and the rest of the Lazio; the Marche, Tuscany, Milan, Rimini and L'Aquila in the Abruzzo. Among the back-up material, an entire book on Etruscan cities and necropoli, Tobias Smollett's Letters. My diary covers those 14 months of walks in central Italy in an additional 305 pages with 661 photos, most of which are not found elsewhere onsite.

[ 7/2/07: 75 webpages, 119 photos, 113 engravings,
92 plans and maps ]

England on my site means the photoillustrated diary account of a very expensive Christmas holiday; two very sketchy pages on some of the sights in London; the Cathedrals of Ely, Norwich, Oxford, and Peterborough as presented in 8 chapters of King's Handbook to English Cathedrals; a very good guidebook to Oxford by one of its leading professors; and a section on Roman Britain (with a little admixture here and there of Wales and Scotland) including Ptolemy's map but mostly four books: Thomas Codrington's classic 386‑page Roman Roads in Britain, two handsomely illustrated books by the archaeologist John Ward, and George Witts' Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire.

Switzerland: a few pictures of Mendrisio, a small town in the Ticino not very far from Italy. Mostly churches, of course.

[ 6/23/99: 101 pages, 249 images ]

For convenience, since so much of my site is about Roman antiquity, I've provided a separate Roman Gazetteer.