Written by Sue Dobson
Ancient Rome sits alongside and melds into a 21st-century, traffic-clogged, tourist-pounded city. Here, over 2,700 years of history are at your feet. BC meets AD in 2000-year-old weathered brick arches butting against colour-washed palazzi, Christian churches are built over pagan temples and plundered Egyptian columns grace colonnaded squares. Dark trees top hills and froth from tubs in rooftop gardens, while the...
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