Place of the Day
A father and son. A city. A reason to go.
Every episode, Steve and Chris Steele take one place —
a neighborhood, a market, a square, a hill with a view —
and tell you why it needs to be on your list.
A conversation you have with someone who’s been there,
loved it, and wants you to feel what they felt.
The same stories.
Three ways to experience them.
Start wherever feels right. The blog goes deep. The podcast feels like the trip. The video puts you there.
The Blog
Every stop has a full story behind it — the history, the architecture, the thing most visitors walk straight past. The blog goes deep, so you arrive knowing what you’re looking at.
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15 to 18 minutes. Steve leads. Chris asks the questions that pull the best stories out. Pour the companion drink. Press play. It sounds like being there.
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The podcast, with photos and on-location footage from every stop. Watch the city while you hear the story. Steve’s photography. Chris’s narration. The place itself.
→ Watch on YouTubeRome in Seven Stops
Seven episodes. One city. Two thousand years of architecture and history — ending at the hill where you can see all of it at once.
Rome Walking Tour PDF — Seven stops. Mapped, sequenced, and ready to go. Free download.
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“The View That Holds the Whole City”
Every day at noon, a cannon fires from a hill above Rome.
It has been firing every single day since 1846.
The clocks have GPS now. The cannon still fires.
From this hill, you can see every stop in the Rome series
laid out below you — the Pantheon, the Forum,
Piazza Navona — like a map of twenty-eight centuries.
This is where the series ends.
The Companion Drinks
Every episode pairs with a cocktail and a mocktail — not a strict regional recipe, but a mood. A flavor profile that evokes the place.
“Before we go — we always pair a drink with the place. For Rome, we’re calling this one Two Thousand Years. It tastes like something ancient underneath the sweetness.”
— Steve SteeleSteve and Chris Steele
Steve Steele has been to Rome more times than he can count.
He still finds something new every trip.
Chris Steele asks the questions that pull the best stories
out of his dad — the history behind the postcard,
the feeling underneath the monument,
the thing most visitors walk straight past.
Together, they make Place of the Day: a show about where to go
and why it matters, built around the belief that the best travel
happens on foot, in conversation, with someone who loves
the place as much as you will.
New cities.
New stories. Every week.
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