Rome

Overview

Roma: The name inverts neatly to form amor[e].  No wonder that a natural occurrence is to fall in love with Rome, the fabled Eternal City , the city that exerts the most fascination in the mind of the traveler, and can reward as no other city can.  Do not expect her playful, exuberant fountains to cease from casting their liquid diamonds into the sky, even during the quiet hours of the night, for there is no stopping the water-flow of her hundreds of miles of acqueducts, which will also be serving your hotel room.  Yet, as no other city has been the focal point of the world for such a long period of time, few have such a long and turbulent history as has Roma.  Lavished with architectural jewelry from republican to imperial to early-christian to medieval to renaissance to baroque to modern times by history's greatest artists, the queen of cities has also experienced sieges and  raids that left their scars; but each time the Eternal City recovered from her injuries in glorious form.

Roma�s history is tightly connected to the history of Europe as a whole.  Not just the Roman emperors but also medieval emperors and kings, such as Charlemagne and Otto I, regarded Rome as the true seat of power; only here could their authority, through benediction by the popes, could be sanctified.

"Non basta una vita," it is said: One does not have to be one of the countless academics residing in her many foreign institutes to declare that one life is not enough to get to know Roma.  Maybe you�ll need about nine, as many as...more

History