Context Travel

Anthony welcomes Paul Bennett of Context Travel, who tells us about their walking tours of Italy. Learn more about how these tours evolved to become something completely unique, as well as some of the things you will see and learn about on their walks.

Caravaggio

Anthony discusses the artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, including his background, the history surrounding his artwork, his patrons, as well as where you can see his work around the world.

Technology and Toursim

Chris Carriero tells a little bit about the political and cultural happenings in Italy, as well as ikangaroo, where he combines tourism and technology.

Paul Bennett

Context was founded by Paul Bennett and Lani Bevacqua. Before arriving in Rome in the fall of 2001, Lani and Paul spent a year and a half voyaging aboard Lucy, a 38-foot sailing ketch, making their way from New York City to Rome via Central America, the Atlantic Islands, and North Africa.



Paul is an award-winning writer for National Geographic and National Geographic Adventure. He holds a Master’s from St. John’s College’s “Great Books” program and has written four books for Princeton Architectural Press about architecture and landscape. In Rome, when he’s not helping run Context, he lectures on architecture, and serves as a European correspondent for Architectural Record. His article about underground Rome appeared in the July 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine and was selected for the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 (Houghton Mifflin, October 2007). His February 2005 NG Adventure article about sailing across the Atlantic was selected for the Best American Travel Writing 2005 (Houghton Mifflin, October 2006), while his article on global warming in Greenland for the same magazine recently won a Thomas Lowell Award (October 2007).

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