Rome: an itinerary in the time

ITINERARY ROME: THE OLD ROME
We can begin our first itinerary from old Rome, the city side that founded the roman and western culture. The Foro Romano ( Largo Romolo and Remo 5; Santa Maria Nova Square 53 ) between Palatino and Campidoglio hills, represented the political and meeting place of “capitolina” community. Then, the development of Fori Romani marks the crossing from Republican to Imperial age, where every emperor owned his “Foro”; crossing this enchanting area, you can admire ruins of squares, streets, buildings and monuments of 2000 years ago. From Fori Imperiali going through Homonym Street, you arrive to Anfiteatro Flavio, well known all over the world like Colosseo (from Colosso). Continuing adjoining Oppio Hill, you can visit the Domus Area (what remains about luxurious Nerone’s mansion) to conclude this mini trip in imperial Rome at the Museo della Civiltà Romana by Eur (approachable by the A line of the underground just nearby the Colosseo)

ITINERARY ROME: REPUBLICAN AND IMPERIAL ROME
At the back of Colosseo begins a spread of green that gathers a lot of archaeological testimonies of republican and imperial Rome.
In fact an other itinerary to walk is just which from Circo Massimo, by way of Terme di Caracalla we reach to the Porta San Sebastiano; from here begins the Appia Antica, the most representative of republican and imperial age. What today has become a splendid natural and archaeological park, at that time gave hospitality to the graves of most important roman families, as well as villas and other important monuments. Today a Public Institute manages the park and organizes itineraries on foot or by bike.
The heart of ancient Rome was the area of Fori but the real city reached in the plain of Campo Marzio. In this area rose great public building and structure for games. Here is born the Pantheon (temple devoted to all Gods) the most famous Piazza Navona built on which was in imperial age was the stadium Domiziano and, at the other side of Tevere, the mausoleum of emperor Adriano become Castel S.Angelo in medieval age. Nearby, by the Palazzo Altemps is possible admire prestigious sculpture dating back to ancient Rome.

ITINERARY ROME: REINASSENCE AND BAROQUE ROME
It’s just from here that we can individualize an other possible itinerary, a point of contact with Renaissance and Baroque Rome. A whole quarter testimony of this age: Piazza Navona, Campo de’ Fiori, Piazza Farnese, Via Giulia, Via dei Coronari, the Tridentino in Piazza di Ponte. Of course the churches of baroque age are a lot in this area of city: the church of Sant’Ivo at the Sapienza, Santa Maria della Pace, the Oratorio dei Filippini are the most representative.
The baroque art reaches his maximum expression in Piazza San Pietro in Vaticano, gateway to the splendid S.Pietro Basilica, consecrated in 1626. With the elevator is possible to go up still the cupola of Basilica and admire the whole Roma from overhead. Absolutely to visit, next to the basilica, the Musei Vaticani, that are 22 among rooms and collections.

ITINERARY ROME: MEDIEVAL ROME
On the contrary about the medieval age is remained very little; the building constructed in the area of Fori were sacrificed to free the space around the Campidoglio. Between Via delle Botteghe Oscure and Via Michelangelo Caetani we can find the Cripta Balbi, excellent testimony of Dark Ages. On the Lungotevere we can admire some medieval age mansion of important roman families. Also in this case it is possible to conclude the walk going to visit the Museo Nazionale del Medioevo at the Eur in the Palazzo delle scienze.

ITINERARY ROME: POPULAR ROME
A self-itinerary is constituted by Trastevere quarter, the more authentic testimony of the popular Roman history. In fact although the transformations, the quarter has kept his popular charm, loved by tourists and above all by Romans. If you want to make your tour more exciting and joined to the popular quarter of city, you can contact the agency HappyRent that organizes exclusive tours aboard of vintage cycles such as the Vespa or the Lambretta. Crossing Trastevere River from Ponte Sisto the itinerary begins with Piazza Trilussa. From here a lot of alleys make Trastevere a fascinating and quite mystic quarter: Via Garibaldi till the Granicolo, Via Della Lugara on rise Villa Corsini (botanic garden) and Villa della Farnesina, Piazza Della Scala, Vicolo del Moro till to arrive to Piazza Santa Maria in Trilussa, pre-eminently tourists and Romans’ meeting-place. At Museo di Roma in Trastevere (Piazza S. Egidio, 1/b) a lot of paintings, printings and pictures testify the aspects of social Roman life in the period between the eighteenth and nineteenth-century. Crossing Viale Trastevere we can admire the other side of the quarter till to arrive to Ponte Cestio that brings to the Isola Tiberina on Tevere, office of the hospital Fatebenefratelli by 1548.

ITINERARY ROMA: MODERN ROME
At the end we have arrived to modern side of Rome, in just mentioned quarter Eur, called like this in prevision of Universal Exhibition in Rome (Esposizione Universale a Roma) in 1942, which never took place because of war. Wide roads, green places, seats of institutions and offices, and residential houses characterize this area. The Palazzo dei Congressi, the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro – known as quadrate Colosseo – and the PalaEur (today Palalottomatica) planned by Pierluigi Nervi are the most representative buildings of contemporary Roman age. Besides the Eur gives hospitality some of most important museums of the capital city: the Museo Preistorico and Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini”, the Museo Nazionale delle Arti and Tradizioni Popolari, the Museo della Civiltà Romana, the Museo dell’Alto Medioevo. At last, to conclude this itinerary with enjoyment we shall invite you to visit the Luneur, the Luna Park of the capital.
What we can tell you more, visiting Rome is how making a trip in the time, between past and future, ancient and modern, traditions and inspirations…practically “Eternal” Rome is everybody’s city and forever.

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