Название: The Rome We Have Lost
Автор(ы): John Pemble
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2018
ISBN: 9780198803966
Страниц: 202
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 57 MB

For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands, and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions.