MysecretRome

The right way to see Rome

'There is one point which cannot be sufficiently impressed on those who wish to take away more than a surface impression of Rome: it is, never to see too much; never try to 'do' Rome.
Nothing can be more depressing to those who really value Rome than to see a couple through the Vatican galleries, one looking for the number of the statue in the guide-book, the other finding it...; than to encounter a husband who boasts of having seen everything in Rome in three days, while the wife laments that, in recollection she cannot distinguish the Vatican from the Capitol, or St Peter's from St Paul's.
Better far to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn to live with them, to love them until they become part of life and life's recollections'.

Augustus Hare: Walks in Rome (1893)

Happy birthday Rome! The Eternal City was founded on April 21 in 753 b. C. Why not celebrate with a Roman themed dinner tonight?

Palazzo Venezia e i Saloni Monumentali riaperti.

Palazzo Venezia, uno dei principali Palazzi del Rinascimento a Roma; venne costruito a partire dal 1455, quando il Cardinale veneziano Pietro Barbo fu nominato titolare della Basilica di San Marco.
La visita ci riporta nelle sale che, per quasi vent'anni, furono occupate dalla segreteria di Mussolini, inclusa la sala del Mappamondo (dalla quale si vede il celebre balcone sulla piazza), solo da poco tornata ad essere aperta e visitabile.
Ammirabile il magnifico scalone, il vasto giardino, l'elegante loggia ad arcate per le benedizioni.

Mostra: Traiano. Costruire l’Impero, creare l’Europa ai Mercati di Traino, dal 29 novembre - Radio Onda Blu L’8 Agosto del 117 d.C. moriva Marco Ulpio Nerva Traiano, l’optimus princeps che portò l’impero roma