3 stars hotel in Rome
Rome is a reality. For Rome,
more than for most cities, this always has been the central
dilemma of city life:how to maintain its priceless heritage
while improving the lot of its cheerfully inhabitants.
Certainly the 2000 year Jubilee inspired efforts of recent
years and have made a difference. Transport has been boosted,
new museums have been opened and old ones renovated, and the
long awaited Auditorium has opened to universal praise. The
city hasn't re-found the heady days of la dolce vita, but it's
looking good and it's feeling better than it has for a long
time.
Pride also informs much of the typical Roman character: romans
are first and foremost Roman and only then italian.
In a country of unparalleled
beauty, both natural and architectural, Rome remains the jewel
in the crown. In no other city you can see so much in such a
short space of time and yet merely scratch the surface. About
10 feet below ground level exists another world, with traces of
other settlements deep still. In Rome every period has left a
mark. In fact from the time when it was a caput mundi ( center
of the world ), through the development of Christianity to the
present day ( a period of more than 2.500 years ), Rome has
become an unsurpassed anthropological and archaeological
archive of Western culture. And it's enough to wander the
streets to see this.
The art of Michelangelo, the
sculptures of Bernini, the palaces and the cobbled streets, the
perfectly formed piazzas, Rome is all this. Nothing is hidden,
it's all there waiting for you much as it has been for hundreds
of years.
Rome is yet the capital of the world:it's a city of palaces and
temples, more glorious than those which any city contains. And
it's also a duty of the Rome hotel owners to keep efficient
this immense heritage.
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