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Old Posted Nov 19, 2018, 10:08 PM
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I was hoping the graffiti problem had been cleaned up by now (I was there 18 years ago). Florence and Naples were the same in that regard. Still loved all those cities, though.
To me I felt like Naples > Rome > Florence, in terms of amount of graffiti.
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I wasn't too surprised by the graffiti, since I read about it on a lot of different travel sites and blogs. There was definitely much more graffiti in Naples though. Also, Rome wasn't as dirty as others were making it out to be.
I didn't find inner city Rome to be all that dirty. Considering the throngs of people everywhere, the amount of litter wasn't all that bad. When I took a train out to the suburbs to visit my sister, the train went through some districts where people apparently dump all sorts of stuff along the right of way. It was pretty bad. But I loved the historic inner city.

By the way, the suburb where my sister lived looked remarkably like American suburbs. Her apartment complex looked amazingly like any random apartments in our suburbs. The interiors looked that way, too. One thing that was interesting was that the apartment dwellers dried their clothes by hanging them on lines strung across patios or balconies. I don't know if it's that way now or not.
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Is this in the Vatican Museums? I don't remember seeing it. It has been a long time since I was there in 1995! Thank you for bringing so much of it back to my memory, I think I saw every sight featured here except Palazzo Spada.
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Is this in the Vatican Museums? I don't remember seeing it. It has been a long time since I was there in 1995! Thank you for bringing so much of it back to my memory, I think I saw every sight featured here except Palazzo Spada.
Yes it is! It's called the Bramante Staircase. It was built in 1932 so it should've been there when you visited in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramante_Staircase

It was my first time in Rome so I definitely wanted to hit up all the main attractions!
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Very nice!!
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Where did you take that picture of the forum? It looks to be taken from quite a high place.
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Where did you take that picture of the forum? It looks to be taken from quite a high place.
There's a terrace next to the Farnese Gardens (which is at the top of Palatine Hill) that overlooks the Forum.
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Most of these older European cities have a modern district, with high rises, outside the city center, like Paris. Would love to see the modern district of Rome! No photo's of it?
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Amazing thread, homebucket!
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Most of these older European cities have a modern district, with high rises, outside the city center, like Paris. Would love to see the modern district of Rome! No photo's of it?
I didn't see it when I was there. Looks like there is a small one, but I certainly didn't see it, even from higher vantage points.



Looks like you can see some high rises off in the distance here:
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Most of these older European cities have a modern district, with high rises, outside the city center, like Paris. Would love to see the modern district of Rome! No photo's of it?
Rome doesn't have much of a modern financial district. That's mostly in Milan and other northern Italian cities.
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There's a terrace next to the Farnese Gardens (which is at the top of Palatine Hill) that overlooks the Forum.
Thanks! I'm going there in a couple of weeks.
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