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Dear Friends, The guide we here present to you has thus been conceived according to criteria of conciseness and simplicity (13 itineraries around Rome). Its aim is to provide you with all that is essential to enable you to tune into the living breath of history, the eternal fascination, that the city of Rome emanates from its every ruin, its every work of art. ITINERARY 1 - Piazza Venezia, Palazzo Venezia, Basilica of St.Marco, The Victor Emanuel Monument, The Capitoline, The Piazza del Campidoglio, Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo Nuovo, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Museum of the Conservatori, Museo Nuovo, Capitoline Picture Gallery, Church of St.Maria in Aracoeli, Roman Forum. ITINERARY 2 - The Palatine, Imperial Forum, Colosseum. ITINERARY 3 - The Teatro Marcello, The Ghetto, Santa Maria in Cosmedin, The Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura. ITINERARY 4 - Caracalla Baths, St.Sebastian's gate, Via Appia Antica, Catacombs. ITINERARY 5 - Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Basilica of San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Church of Santa Prassede, Church of San Clemente. ITINERARY 6 - Baptistery of San Giovanni, Church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Catacombs of Marcellino and Pietro. ITINERARY 7 - Piazza Colonna, Piazza Esedra, St.Maria degli Angeli, Diocletian Baths, The Quirinale, Palazzo Barberini, Via Veneto, Porta Pia. ITINERARY 8 - SS.Apostoli Basilica, Trevi fountain, Piazza di Spagna (Spanish steps), Pincio Gardens, Villa Borghese Gardens, National Museum of Villa Giulia. ITINERARY 9 - Doria Pamphilij Art Gallery, Montecitorio, Via del Corso, St.maria del Popolo, Foro Italico. ITINERARY 10 - St.Maria sopra Minerva, The Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Ara Pacis, San Luigi dei Francesi, Palazzo Borghese. ITINERARY 11 - Church of the Gesł, Campo de Fiori, Palazzo Farnese, Via Giulia. ITINERARY 12 - Trastevere, Villa Pamphilij Gardens, Castel Sant'Angelo, Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Palazzo Corsini, The Janiculum, Church of San Pietro in Montorio. ITINERARY 13 - Vatican City, St.Peter Basilica, Vatican Palaces, Vatican picture Gallery, Sistine Chapel, Raffaello Rooms, Vatican Library, Borgia Apartments. All roads lead to Rome: so goes an old saying in praise of the grandeur and importance of a city which claimed for itself the title of Caput Mundi. And, by the same token, whatever road the visitor has taken to reach it, he can be sure that what he is about to be offered is an opportunity to admire and study an historical, artistic and monumental heritage of universal value. The Roman civilisation was, together with that of Greece, the great cradle of Western Civilisation. If the greeks gave the best of themselves in literature, art, philosophy and the life of the spirit, the Romans, with their greater practical and rational sense, devoted themselves rather to political life, administration and the organization of the Empire. This difference of character is reflected in their works: while those of Greeks pursue an ideal of pure harmony and beauty, those of the Romans are imbued with a sense of grandeur, power and a more frankly utilitarian spirit. This, indeed, is the main characteristic of Roman architecture, whose fascination will inevitably be exerted on visitors during their visits to the Roman Forums, the Amphitheatres, the Basilicas and the triumphal arches. By a strange and uniquely privileged destiny, History conspired to ensure that, even after the fall of the Roman Empire, in less glorious times than those of the Caesars, Rome should preserve its role as a source of Civilisation and as a cultural and moral centre of the world by becoming the capital of Christianity and the Apostolic See of the Successor of Peter. It was precisely due to the Papacy if the city revived during the Renaissance period and expressed a cultural and artistic activity which had not since the days of antiquity. The new splendour of Rome found its greater expression in the building of the new Basilica of St.Peter and the vast complex of the Vatican City Palaces with their incomparable masterpieces of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelonwhich represent some of the greatest achievements of all time. The city of Rome is thus the witness par excellence of the millennial history of tha Western Civilisation, and a through description of its notable monumental heritage would require a work that would fill a library in itself.
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