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The city itsel[ is l)uill cm a rocky tongue ot lanil lii( h ' ,c|ia- laies the ancient inner haii)(ii, Mar Picolo,from the oiiler hai- bor, Mar Grande. Standino out among the other binklings is the castle you observed immediately upon enteiing the outer iKiibcir. Tliis was biuU in the dciailc Ironi 1 i ' M) to 1300 and gives the ajjpcaraiice of inipregnabih ' ix . ' ro(hi) it ser cs as tiie icsidenie ot the Ciovcinor. ' i ' oii hked ihe wide, sun-sphislied cur e nl the Suaila ' ' ittorio Enianiiele, I lie lieautiltd jiromenade along liie waterfront, . long this thi e tlie Itorse-drawn carriages and)le and the European sporls cars — die Fiats, the Reiiaidts and ihe Volkswagens — speed. The Pia . a della VittDila Mill possesses much of its chann wiih its parks all filled with spiiiig flowers. Xearby you b c) ed through busy shops and conkhrt resist spending you. Italian lira in this pictiires(|iie old il . M
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Do you remember how you anticipated that tour to Rome? The Ancients had a saying See Rome and die. It was as il to say that when you had seen Rome you had seen everything. Well, this trip turned out to be the real thing. The first thing that struck you when you rame into the city was the paradoxical construction of it. The major portion, and you seem always to be siaprised at this fact, is as thoroughly modern as a city-dweller coidd wish. Modern buildings, well-paved streets, with streetcars and buses and autcjs merging into traKic jams as satisfactorily as any to be found in Boston or New York. The sidewalks weie teeming with people winclowsho]jping before excellent stores and simps, lift just as you were comparing some Roman Corso with the doAvntown section of your favorite city, there would ap])ear a square or a plaza with some incredibly ancient building or monument standing between the marble glitter and sleek glass of a modern department store and the undistinguished stolidity of an It.dian bank buildiirg. The contr.ist was conl using and lemained so until you learned to locus upon the old world and to filler out the new. . ncient Rome did not suUer from the comparison with the modern city. c en in its ercxled and rebuilt state. Too, uKjst ol the ancient edifices had been strip[)ed ot the marble and staiuary which had origin.dly adorned their stone work, yet the structures reciuired little imagination to restore them to their original glory. First, there was the magnificent Cloliseinn, and nu were pretty eager to stand in that might stadium and trv to pictiue the l)loody scenes of carnage and m.ir- trvclom which had been its feature attraction in .uuient Rome. Later wlien you looked .it the gaiuU colunnis and arches of the l ' ounn, the Past came crowding in upon ou sluuting out the I ' useiU. () er there in that pla a that seems to gle.im again in marble ]jei lee lion. vas brought the liodv of |ulius Caesar. If vou listened c loselv vou could still hear the echoes o[ M.irk Anlhonv ' s luuei.d oration, We ha e come not to praise Caesar, but to hui him. Here victoiious C:aes,u luid lome to claim his lamels. Here he had p.uaded the iaptinx ' cl wealth and i()iu|uerc(l peoples of a do en piiuces who had resisted his legions. Here a do en emperois h.id procl.iimed their strength or li.icl wornedlv tested the lebellious | ulse ol ilie ui.nrin-the-street. . vanished now. but the stietches ol the Foi urn .ne peopled with the liosts th.it still stroll its liistorv- haiinted square. Kverywiiere in ihe old ciiv weie the signs ol ilir (lioiough-going total war of the Goths and llic Huns who o eii,iii Rome in llie . ' .ill Clenturv in .1 lui of destruction lli.u ii ,iled llie lax ,i-l)oi ne doom ol Pompeii.
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