Is it the coin thrown, without really believing it, in the Trevi Fountain during our previous stay? May be. This gesture, it is said, ensures the traveler to return to Rome. So here we are once again, with beating hearts, intoxicated by the 2,500-year history of the Eternal City, wolf and vestal. Already, the aromas of coffee mingle with the scents of lime trees and umbrella pines. The unique light sculpts the facades with terracotta reflections and underlines the admirable urban disorder.
Ciao Roma!
Let us leave the historic center to discover the EUR (pronounced “éour”), this modern district dreamed by Mussolini since the 1930s to host the Universal Exhibition of Rome of 1942. With the war breaking out, the project was suspended and then completed in the years 1950. Everything here evokes the resurrection of the
urbs,
the ancient and grandiose city, thanks to rationalist lines and monumental proportions.
Walking in the wide alleys, the walker feels himself narrowing with each
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