MONUMENTS IN ROME

A sightseeing tour in Rome

Who is not attracted by the charm of Rome…“fling the first stone”!
It is the mystery of a metropolis-capital city that pretty wears the clothes of a village or of a quarter….
The city that welcomes everybody and where everybody can find a collage of memories, of art stratifications added year after year and spread in the living body of Urbe: a lot of works, a lot of monuments, and a lot of beauty. What to see? Everything! Here is a tour among the monuments in Rome…
What are monuments if not evidences and memories of an infinity past? They are ruins. But also signs of resistance: the strength of being forever; future. They never end even in the extent of the present space. Some of them are wonders that took our breath away. Others surely not.
For example the irony about the doubtful identity of the Victorian is a legend: if it is a caricature of an altar for the fatherland or a typewriter that needed more than a century to be made (which today is an important centre for art exhibitions). But there is no doubt that some monuments, beautiful or bad, are almost symbols. Would you ever go to Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame? To New York putting aside the Statue of Freedom or to Verona ignoring the arena?
Rome has these symbols too. But has a lot of them. Generous Rome has plenty and gives evidence of them everywhere. How can you resist to the imperial Forums, maybe an evening in summer, at a legendary sunset? Or to the circle of sky that you can see from the dome of the Pantheon? How can you give up the Colosseo, hymn to the greatness, but also to the terrible games of the ancient feasts? It is better to prefer the quieter circle of games of the Circo Massimo? Wouldn’t you like to enter for a while in the fatal mystery of the Catacombs? Or to draw into the more magic and enigmatic mystery of the Cestia Pyramid?
You can find magic places like these with a guided visit Through Eternity Secret Rome from Whatsonwhen, that offers a panorama of the most mysterious places and monuments of the capital city: Churches, Byzantine mosaics, frescoes and archaeological finds will be revealed to you in this visit.
From the bank of the Tevere, it is impossible not to see the Sant’Angelo Castle, mausoleum of the Emperor Adriano, which was the Popes’ residence during the medieval era. From there you can easily reach the Isola Tiberina, and what still remain of the medieval Rome. Rome is art and culture, and the wonderful galleries of the city well keep such testimonies: Galleria Borghese, Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Spada and Galleria Corsini are among the most famous and important. And what do you think of going for a walk in the gardens of Villa Adriana, the most wonderful of the imperial villas? We can find the remains of the graves and the villas of the most important families in Ancient Rome along the Appia Antica, the “queen of the ways” during the Republican and Imperial era. On the site dedicated to the park of the Appia Antica, you can visit and go through the archaeological area thanks to a virtual itinerary.
On Internet you can find the photos of some monuments taken from unusual perspectives. On the site of the municipality of Rome dedicated to the area and the monuments of the Imperial Forums you can virtually visit this area thanks to the webcams deliberately set in this place.
Squares, streets, buildings and walls are animated. Its own monuments are bound to legends, myths and political and daily events. Rome talks about history, time, and life.

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