BOOKS - CULTURE AND ARTS - The Rome We Have Lost
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The Rome We Have Lost
Author: John Pemble
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 202
Format: PDF
File size: 57 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 202
Format: PDF
File size: 57 MB
Language: ENG
For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands, and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions.