Rome: Quick City Overview
City: Rome
Region: Lazio
Place: Quick City Overview
Rome is probably the most enigmatic city in the world. The Western Civilization was mostly molded in this particular Culture who started from the middle region of the Italian Peninsula and then expanded its borders in what it was the most intelligent and successful conquest of the History, previously using the wisdom of the Ancient Greeks, with a strong republican system who served a base for the development of the other areas of the daily life, especially in the Arts and the Urbanism/Architecture, both directly connected to the War and the Commerce who supported the whole system of the expansion of Rome. This city was interesting from the very beginning, at its first centuries of life, where the population went to more than 1 million people, a huge and surprising number for those times that forced the engineers to think on some really beautiful creations such as the aqueducts, the sewage system and the bridges over the Tiber River. After several decades of destruction executed by the barbarians and when it entered the Middle Age, the city of Rome somehow managed to keep some of its splendor, though it never got to became again the center of the Mediterranean life, especially with the appearance of new powerful cities in the north such as Venice, Genoa, Milan and Florence. In the following centuries, many famous icons would lose its glory, such as the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus, and many others would emerge, suchs as the Basilica of San Pietro at the 17th Century, the Fontana Di Trevi, and even the gorgeous Monumento a Vittorio Emanuelle II and the beginning of the 20th Century. Nowdays, Rome could be considered a huge open museum, with hundreds of buildings and places from all the historical periods, combined with the chaos of the new Italian life. You can literally feel all of the generations who lived there when you visit the city. After all, most of our roots as were born there.
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