Rome & Lazio
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Rome is the most fascinating city in Italy, which makes it arguably the most fascinating city in the world. An ancient place packed with the relics of over two thousand years of inhabitation, you could spend a month here and still only scratch the surface. Yet it's so much more than an open-air museum: its culture, its food, its people make up a modern, vibrant city that would be worthy of a visit irrespective of its past. As a historic place, it is special enough; as a contemporary European capital, it is utterly unique.
Evenly placed between north and south, Rome is perhaps the perfect Italian capital. Former heart of the mighty Roman Empire, and still the home of the papacy, Rome is seen as a place somewhat apart from the rest of the country, spending money made elsewhere on the bloated government machine. For the traveler of course, this is much less evident than the sheer weight of history that the city supports. First are Rome's classical features, most visibly the Colosseum, and the Forum and Palatine Hill; but from here there's an almost uninterrupted sequence of monuments – from early Christian basilicas and Romanesque churches to Renaissance palaces and the fountains and churches of the Baroque period, which perhaps more than any other era has determined the look of the city today. There is the modern epoch, too, from the ponderous neoclassical architecture of the post-Unification period to the self-publicizing edifices of the Mussolini years. These various eras crowd in on one another to an almost overwhelming degree: there are medieval churches atop ancient basilicas above Roman palaces; houses and apartment blocks that incorporate fragments of eroded Roman columns, carvings and inscriptions; roads and piazzas which follow the lines of ancient amphitheatres and stadiums.
Beyond Rome, the region of Lazio inevitably pales in comparison, with relatively few centers of note and a landscape that varies from the gently undulating green hills of its northern reaches to the more inhospitable mountains to the south and east. It's a relatively poor region, its lack of identity the butt of a number of Italian jokes, and it's the closest you'll get to the feel of the Italian south without catching the train to Naples. Much, however, can easily be seen on a day-trip from the capital, not least the ancient sites of Ostia Antica and the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli – two of the area's most important ancient sites. Further afield, in the north of Lazio, the Etruscan sites of Tarquinia and Cerveteri provide the most obvious tourist focus, and are again just about visitable on a day-trip, but you'd do better to use the pleasant provincial town of Viterbo as a base. Romans, meanwhile, head out at weekends to soak up the gentle beauty of lakes Bracciano, Vico and Bolsena. The south arguably holds Lazio's most appealing enclaves. The coast is home to unpretentious resorts like Terracina and Sperlonga – relatively unknown outside Italy; and the island of Ponza, accessible from Terracina and Formia, further down the coast, is out of season at least one of the most alluring spots on the entire western seaboard.
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