Rome with German eyes

enjoy Rome

Rome, that’s “La dolce vita”, Italian ice-cream at the top of the Spanish Stairs, touching a marble column of the masterpiece of antic buildings: the Pantheon; that’s sitting in front of the Colosseo with eyes wide open, throwing a coin over your shoulder into the Fountain of Trevi and finally taking a pizza at night at the Campo de’ Fiori while a group of musicians are playing there music – if you are lucky, maybe they are telling you about “Amore”, if you aren’t they are playing jazz…


Actually you cannot loose.






It is this light atmosphere, that most people are searching for, when they visit Rome. They want to see, want to experience this still living myth: Rome. The Eternal City.






Rome is an encyclopaedia, a historical document, which can be perambulated like you thumb through a book: All these different types of architecture are telling history – beginning with the antic Forum Romanum, coming to the numerous churches of the Middle Ages and going over to the renaissance, San Pietro, Piazza del Campidoglio or the large number of “Palazzi” just to mention a few, before having a look at the district EUR, which is an impressive feat of the architecture of Mussolini’s age.






The City invites you to follow different paths and thus different stories to discover, for every building and every statue has its own secret and leads back to human fates, ideas and human humour as well.


Do you know where the second angel on the facade of church Sant’Andrea della Valle has been gone?


And what can you catch sight of, when you look through the famous keyhole of the Priory (at 3 Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta)?






And when there’s some time left to leave the ancient as well as the modern myth behind, you can just drift through the streets of this metropolis with its 2,7 million inhabitants, its traffic problems, its visible poverty on the one hand and its Via Condotti with all the luxurious fashion shops on the other hand, and just watch, follow the small lanes, loose yourself in this city, take a coffee or an aperitivo in a bar and particularly at the bar (as Romans do!) and above all: Always look at the bright side of life – for this could be a roman law!