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kind of a mirage amid the Ural everyday Now it seems to me a week spent in Italy, a country where (he did not understand how it happened), but until now have never been and which had long dreamed of. Seven days in Rome and Florence, became the most amazing and wonderful from my travels.
Eternal City - is something quite different from the all that I still saw and felt. This city is two and a half thousand years of its existence, has amassed a force that is incomparable with anything, and that literally hangs in the air above the ancient city.
Rome is an ensemble of different ages.
era of the Republic and the Empire brought a whole number of masterpieces, many of which are already more than two thousand years. This is the Pantheon - the temple of the pagan gods, where sixteen centuries after its construction was buried Raphael is the Colosseum - 80000th arena serves as the center cruel amusement of the Empire, it's Imperial Forum which was created and operated such a perfect system of governance, to which Russia probably will not come, and after another two thousand years.
another era, presented in Rome, are the epoch of early Christianity - the monuments, created after the fourth century AD Emperor Constantine was baptized.
And finally, the Renaissance - the time when they were created all the major masterpieces of human art. During this period worked by Leonardo da Vinci and Donatello, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Titian, Giotto and Botticelli and Dante, Raphael, Petrarch, Machiavelli, and many - many other geniuses of this amazing period. Creativity of these masters of the most complete and clearly presented was in Rome, which has among its amazing wealth of the Vatican with the Sistine Chapel and San Pietro, the Trevi Fountain and the Castel Sant'Angelo, as well as hundreds of masterpieces of art from different eras that have passed before the eyes of the Eternal City since as Romulus in the seventh century BC, went to Capitol Hill.
within the Roman walls of several centuries prohibited any construction, so If tourism is to your lip gloss and comfort, then you are not here. In Rome there are no luxury hotels or modern shopping centers, even the subway as such, not just a two lines of underground trains, because they dig the soil, still hiding the monuments of antiquity, is quite impossible. But if you're interested in history, architecture and art, there is nothing even remotely comparable to the masterpieces of Rome, you will not find anywhere else.
of the perfect Renaissance Florence will write some other time.
