Happy Fourth of July!! A year ago today I was shocked and awed by the decorative work I saw at the Villa Torlonia, an exquisite house in Rome that has been painstakingly restored since the 1970's. Very fine, very high quality workmanship throughout the house. It housed Mussolini during the war and then afterwards the Allied command. 

Nice Red White and Blue celebration on the walls of the Villa Torlonia in Rome.