Rome is a truth.

For Rome, more than for many cities, this has always been the central issue of city life: maintaining its valuable heritage while enhancing many of its cheerful residents.

The 2000-year Jubilee influenced efforts of recent years and has made a difference.

Transport has been boosted, new museums have been opened and old ones refurbished, and the long-awaited Auditorium has opened to universal praise.

The city has yet to re-found the heady days of la dolce vita. However, it’s looking great and feeling better than it has been for a long time.

Pride also informs much of the typical Roman character: Romans are first and foremost Roman and just then Italian.

In a country of unparalleled natural and architectural charm, Rome stays the gem in the crown. In no other city can you see a lot in such a short time and yet merely scratch the surface?

Another world exists about 10 feet below ground level, with traces of other settlements deep still.

In Rome, every duration has left a mark.

In fact, from when it was a caput mundi (center of the world ), through the advancement of Christianity to today (more than 2.500 years ), Rome has become an unsurpassed anthropological and archaeological archive of Western culture. And it suffices to wander the streets to see this.

The art of Michelangelo, the sculptures of Bernini, the palaces and the patched streets, the perfectly formed piazzas, Rome is all this.

Nothing is hidden; it’s all there waiting for you, much as it has been for centuries.

Rome is yet the capital of the world: it’s a city of palaces and temples, more marvelous than those which any town contains.

And it’s likewise a task of the Rome hotel owners to keep efficient this enormous heritage.