part of the reason why Rome is awesome to so many poeple is its ability to combine the life of ancient, old, and present together. look at the Pantheon for example, exist since basically 2000years ago, as a pagan worship place. In the Renaissance, a sculpted fountain was added infront of it. Today, you can go there on a casual after dinner walk and let the ancient history become fabric of your daily life.
Especially for us the AE here, we didn't come here to just take pretty picture of ancient monument, we are here to study the function these streets and building served in the past and today, and the transformation. To us, we literally can see how life was vs. today. Rome is a time machine, if you reach far enough, you can almost live in the day of antiquity, or Baroque period. Its a mind-blowing experience.
A part of me love the idea to go back in time and discover the old. Alot of people will agree with that. Why? I don't know, but I think a part in us see reconstruction as a beautiful activity.
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