Welba Lipstick Holder 1950

Rome

Rome, the Eternal City. City
immense artistic and cultural heritage. City where you can breathe history just walking in the streets. City open air museum.
Cities Planning disaster (and it is a compliment). City disorganized and dirty.
One has the impression that Roma are not interested in anything that has dell'imenso cultural heritage, but only exploited to attract tourists to be milked like cows.
Rome, ".. the manholes of sewers, like many ancient shields, you write acora SPQR ..." sang Alberto Fortis years ago, and it's true!
Rome, Vatican City. Where luxury and opulence are the masters in churches and cathedrals. The galleries of the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel, and so on. Places to turn upward looking and be amazed. Places where the greatest artists of the past have given their interpretation of facts or fantasies of the people. Ceilings, walls, frescoes, tapestries. Everything and more. Drugs.
But contrary to the teachings of those who ran barefoot around 2000 years ago or on a mule trying to teach humility, love and tolerance. In these places you can breathe just art, size, luxury and pomp, self-celebration ...
Humility, love, tolerance are written in books. It is not maybe someone has torn pages?
Rome. Nice to be gone, maybe I did not happen. There probably will not come back, maybe. There are many other cities to see. Maybe not everywhere see tourists as cows to be milked, but as opportunities for growth for the whole region. Maybe not everywhere see their monuments, such as lanterns for moths, but as a heritage to protect and enhance in order to leave something to those who come after us.
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