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Regions of Italy
Rome? Any definition would be quite reductive. Land of art and law, Cinecittà and the Vatican, mystery and style. Politics, culture, religion and state agencies. And holidays! Center of Catholicism, of course, but also of hedonism and cosmopolitan secularization. Rome, capital of Italy (3.700.000 inhabitants), historical centre and European metropolis, where modernity and antiquity live [...]
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Rome? Any definition would be quite reductive. Land of art and law, Cinecittà and the Vatican, mystery and style. Politics, culture, religion and state agencies. And holidays! Center of Catholicism, of course, but also of hedonism and cosmopolitan secularization. Rome, capital of Italy (3.700.000 inhabitants), historical centre and European metropolis, where modernity and antiquity live in harmony, completing one another in an all Mediterranean melting pot of cultures, of new and old gods. The expression Caput Mundi may sound awkward now, in a globalized centreless world. But stil, it’s a city of kings, emperors and the Pope. Rome, 3000 years, has gone form great history (the Empire) to gossip ( the Dolce Vita). This is what we sense when we quietly visit the city on foot. Pompous and slightly overemphatic fascist architecture – in Eur and Via della Conciliazione -, sober pagan monuments – the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Thermae and the Domus Aurea -, masterpieces of the Renaissance – St. Peter’s Churche and the Sistine Chapel -, Baroque splendours – Bernini’s fountains – and glimpses of Trastevere all seem to live together peacefully. ‘Gold, silver and tea rooms’, from an old Italian song. The musical breezy voices in the suburbs depicted by the Italian neorealism movies, intense cultural life – numerous universities -, the fancy shops of Via Condotti and the frugal ones at Porta Portese. Centuries-old tradition does not affect daily life or the philosophical, fatalistic serenity in the least. That tranquillity, so typical of ancient Romans, has remained unchanged.
