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Rome is a heady blend of
artistic and architectural masterpieces, classical ruins, and extravagant
baroque churches and piazzas. The places evoke the people -- Roman emperors
concerned with outdoing their predecessors in grandeur, powerful prelates
enmeshed in intricate scandals, geniuses summoned by popes to add to the
Vatican's treasures, a dictator who left his mark on the city before his
imperial dreams were shattered, and the contemporary Romans, full of the
earthy energy that makes this a city of unique vitality.
Today Rome's formidable legacy is upheld by its people, their history knit
into the fabric of their everyday lives. Students walk dogs in the park that
was once the mausoleum of the family of the emperor Augustus; Raphaelesque
Madonnas line up for buses on busy corners; a priest in flowing robes walks
through a medieval piazza talking on a cell phone. Modern Rome has one foot
in the past, one in the present -- a delightful stance that allows you to
have an espresso in a square designed by Bernini, then take the Metro back
to your hotel room in a renovated Renaissance palace.
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