When you think of Rome, images from postcards, films, songs or dialect expressions come to your mind. Several quotations that help creating ideas, suggestive stories, emotions we feel that shape our image of the Eternal City. Everyone visited Rome, but the amazement and the astonishment of every visitor are normal when those images are seen with your own eyes and you can almost touch them.
Monumental, magnificent and always different, Rome is like an enormous stage in a theatre where the set continues to change, bringing the spectator to different historic periods. Among the intricate medieval alleys, the redundant baroque squares, the magnificent monuments or from the top of its hills, on the Tiber banks and in the archaeological parks, amazement fills the eyes and the heart of those who come to admire it. Now, living in this new atmosphere, the negative aspects, existing nonetheless, become only background noises. An open space museum where masterpieces of thousands of architects, sculptors, painters, whose genius found an ideal space and reason to express itself: from Apollodoro from Damask to Michelangelo, from Bernini to Caravaggio, Raphael, Canova, up to Renzo Piano, who gave to the city another masterpiece with the New Auditorium.
The charm will never finish in Rome, because it is expressed in different shapes, expressions and colours, which we can find in the genuine spirit of the popular Rome, which is characterized by its witty and desecrating characters, moods which are perfectly remembered in the sonnets by Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, Roman poet of the 19th century. The same Roman spirit can also be found in the novels of Pier Paolo Pasolini or in the poets of Trilussia.
A spontaneous an genuine feature, which is celebrated with the Roman cuisine, and with the folk traditions, present above all in Trastevere. Far away from the clamours of the city of popes and emperors, this corner of Rome, which goes beyond the Tiber, fascinates for its popular features which is still existing nowadays, made of liveliness, simplicity, creativity, which make it very attractive, especially for young people and artists.