We’re pretty excited to have discovered the Tobu World Square, a theme park in Japan that has about one hundred 1:25 scale models of World Heritage Sites from across the planet. Called “the largest copy park in the world”, Tobu World Square seems to be a wacky place — just the kind we really love.
We’re totally digging the model of St. Peter’s and we’re particularly charmed by all the small people dashing about the piazza. Is there a mini Pope in there somewhere? And does the model of the Colosseum have mini gladiators?
To check out other supermodels of World Heritage Sites, click on over to the Tobu website. You can spin the virtual globe and see some of the world’s most important monuments at a miniature scale.
It’s only a few days until Easter and it seems that practically every window in Rome is stuffed full of scrumptious chocolate confections. We’ve been out snapping photos of the candy bonanza that is the Easter season in Italy and we’ll be publishing lots of them over the course of the next few days.
These photos show one of Rome’s most famous candy stores, the Confetteria Moriondo and Gariglio at Via Pie’ di Marmo 21-22. Located near the Pantheon and the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, the shop has been in the same family since the end of the 19th century. It’s known for dark, liqueur-filled chocolates and for dolci made out of nuts, but those items are not what’s in demand at this time of year. Rather, at Easter you’ll find lines of people waiting to buy the eggs, fish, and lambs that are made on-site.
