ITALY Readers's Tips - Rome is on the wrong side of the country for that.ly from Rome, or take a ferry from the Adriatic side, Bari and possibly VeniceTrieste and down the coast. Click here.

From the introduction to The Smiles of Rome A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (Susan Cahill, ed. .Rome has the power to blow your mind and heart, delivering man, woman, and child from small mindedness, bestowing a much larger capacity for the beauty of the world than you started out with..'s the accumulation of pasts in Rome and one's consciousness of those layers in the city and in one's self that can make Rome a lifechanging experience.nce Rome enters your consciousness, your perspective on human time may change, deepen, mellow..e whole city seems to pulsate with hidden presences, a register of the human psyche and of 28 centuries of history striated by horror, by thrilling legends, and anonymous kindness.Getting to know Rome, we come home to ourselves.

I've only been there once, but how perfectly this quote captures the essence of Rome for me Thanks for posting this.

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