Feral Feline Colonies Torre Argentina

This guide to the cat colony at Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome starts with the ground's role in 44 BC, when Caesar was assassinated, then follows the site to 1929, when archaeologists uncovered four ancient temples and feral cats moved in. You'll meet the gattare, the unpaid neighborhood women who fed the colony for decades, and hear how a retired opera singer helped turn their work into a formal sanctuary in 1994.