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A better Rome in 2008

Rome was waiting since long time: after a lot of promises and illusions, the question concerning Rome and its masterpieces lying in the heart of the city since 2000 years was finally resolved. It was from a very long time that the atmospheric had reached insupportable levels of tolerance, either for the Romans or for those who don't lose an occasion for visiting Rome every day.

The Major of rome has then decided, beginning from the 10th of January 2008 and for an experimental period of six months to organize the rules of the cars traffic with the system of alternance: the cars' ID with the final odd number won't have the permission to drive in the city on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and the even IDs won't  have the other days. On Sundays the traffic will be prohibited for all the cars (except for buses, taxis, police and ambulances, obviously).

If this experimental period will have its hopeful results, this system will be adopted for a period of three years. God save the Major of Rome who woke up in time to save the Eternal City and its historical beauties.
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Rome domination was only a fear

The Rome empire had a very good system of justice, a very well organized Senate and during the first century AD she began to expand in long and wide its territories perfectioning on its battlefields all the tricks that its army had.

But there was a thing Rome was afraid of: the domination of the wild that constitued for her the unknown world (tigers, lions, elephants and crocodiles brought from Africa and kept in captivity in cages until their kill in the Colosseum games). She had through this domination (called by Rome order and democracy) to demonstrate that she had the control of both aspects of this unknown world,
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The most illuminated star between the world tenors is dead

All the world, Rome included, saw it on TV: Luciano Pavarotti and his beautiful and powerful voice disappeared yesterday morning.

More than forty years of a best level career,Luciano Pavarotti was a giant with a football player shape, with a hard and unique voice, so warm and soon recognizable everywhere.
Never happy to bring his verve in Giuseppe Verdi repertories ("La donna è mobile", a piece of the opera "Rigoletto") or Giacomo Puccini ( the very well-known "Nessun dorma" from "Turandot"), Big Luciano passed to the action for making appreciate the opera songs by the greatest audience, and so that gave him an enormous celebrity, a very rare thing for an opera singer.

Not considering any critic they moved to him, he broke the separation between the musical "waterproof" themes (big barriers) with his show "Pavarotti and friends" with his live on stage exhibitions and also recording some LPs with many rock-stars like Bono and his band "U2", just to quote one between the most popular.
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Rome panoramique du haut du Vittoriano

 

En plongenat le regard en direction du Tibre, le fleuve de Rome, on peut jouir d'une vue splendide de ce fleuve, aux bords longés de murailles et de grands platanes. Sur sa rive gauche on peut admirer, entre autres, les ruines imposantes du Théatre de Marcellus, utilisé à nouveau pendant le Moyen-Age comme résidence de notables de Rome et le dome en pavillon de la Synagogue (construite en 1904 en style architectural syrien) qui domine l'ancien "ghetto" juif.

Plus loin, au delà du détour du fleuve, on peut apercevoir les grandes étendues vertes de Villa Doria Pamphili avec ses magnifiques jardins du 17eme siècle, ainsi que la colline du Mont Janiculum où se dresse la Fontaine monumentale de l'"Acquedotto Paolo" aussi dite "Acqua Paola".

Le Vittoriano de Place Venise à Rome a été pensé et bati pour offrir un tribut à la mémoire de Victor Emmanuel II (le dernier roi d'Italie) et c'est pour cette raison qu'il est normalement appelé Vittoriano, c'est-à-dire dédié à Victor Emmanuel II. Seulement en un deuxième temps le site fut choisi pour y poser le Monument au Soldat Inconnu et devint ainsi un lieu de culte patriotique national.

Mais l'idée de faire coincider les thèmes du tribut au roi et de l'amour pour la patrie était déjà dans la tete de Giuseppe Sacconi, son idéateur et réalisateur, qui avait prévu un sous-bassement de la statue équestre du roi, d'une longueur de 50 mètres: ce projet ne fut jamais réalisé. C'était un bas-relief représentant un double cortège formé par des hommes célèbres précurseurs de l'unité d'Italie qui commenca en 1848 et se termina par la réunification des 20 régions d'Italie (jusqu'alors séparées en duchés,comtés,règnes et protectorats sous dominations de différents pays).

Une curiosité très intéressante: en 1890, pendant les travaux d'aménagement de l'espace autour du monument, fut retrouvé le fossile d'un éléphant préhistorique (mieux lui vaut la dénomination de "mammouth", comme je décris plus loin) avec la machoire et les yeux pétrifiés. Grace à cette découverte, le professeur Portis, directeur du Cabinet Géologique de l'Université "La Sapienza" de Rome attribua le site à la période "pliocène supérieure" (c'est-à-dire d'il y a  2 millions d'années environ). Seulement une partie de l'éléphant put etre extraite et les deux tiers du squelette restèrent à l'intérieur des murs du monument.

Pour construire le monument on dut abattre les édifices (quelques habitations du Forum Romain et des autres édifices qui remontaient au Moyen-Age) situés au Nord du Capitole.

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A new way to visit Rome with private driver

Have no time ? If you have decided to visit Rome with your family you can have the chance to tour in Rome with a reliable private driver in Rome. English speaking limousine driver can take you with a minibus through a Rome shore excursion so that you can know better the history of the eternal city. Sightseeing in Rome with a personal driver can really make easy your holiday in Rome after that you have booked your Rome hotel.
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