City of Cats
Cat, Rome, September 2009. Photo by Ige Ramos. Click on the photo to see more Roman cats.
From the colosseum to the Forum, from the Torre Argentina to the so-called Protestant Cemetery (actually the non-Catholic cemetery), legions of Leos bask and scratch and doze in the ruins of classical Rome, draped over pillars and pedestals, preening and posing for the camera lenses of the city’s migrant visiting army. Watching the tourists’ faces as one walks about this most walkable of metropolises, one sees their obvious pleasure that these otherwise empty and often barbarous ruins should be adorned with live cats; among the most popular postcards are those with cats lying artlessly about famous monuments. As a Dutch lady explained it to me, the animals make these artifacts more human in some way.
From 1999: Et Tu, Kitty? Stalking an army of cats through the ruins of ancient Rome. By James Hamilton-Paterson in Outside Online.
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