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chapter i • introduction •
Rome:
The World’s
Great Beauty
introduction
History, Culture, Human Genius and beautiful landscape have
united to make Rome one of the important cities in the world.
Founded around 753 BC, it was the center and the most powerful
city of Western Civilization, ruling all the Mediterranean, Northern
Africa, England and parts of the Middle East. It became a worldwide
center of pilgrimage, and later in the Renaissance, as the city became
a major European capital of the arts, education, philosophy and
trade, it became an important crossroads for bankers, artists and
philosophers.
Rome, the Eternal City, today is one of the most important
tourist destinations of the world, due to the vast concentration of
archaeological and art treasures as-well-as the charms of unique
traditions, the beautiful panoramic views and the grandeur of the
magnificent “villas” (parks). Nestled around the City’s significant
resources are plenty of museums, aqueducts, fountains, churches,
palaces, historical buildings, the monuments and ruins of the Roman
Forum, and the Catacombs.
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