Rome, located on seven hills for more than 2000 years,is the administrative and cultural capital of Italy. About three thousand years on the banks of the Tiber is "the eternal city", and the center is full to the limit of its cultural and historical monuments - ancient basilicas, ancient ruins, beautiful squares and Renaissance palaces.
Rights well-known saying: "All roads lead to Rome". An ancient and magnificent city attracts tourists from all over the world, including Russia, who, depending on their needs and possibilities, choose a sightseeing tour to Rome.
Few cities in the world can boast of sucha lot of famous sights. This is the Colosseum, and the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, and the Ancient Roman Forum, and the Pantheon, the Vatican with its museums, the Spanish Steps, the Plaza of Spain ...
In Rome, they go for shopping, and for personal matters, andfor business meetings, but most still go, seeking to touch History itself, dreaming to walk through the streets of an ancient beautiful city and feel the breath of eternity. Here an extraordinary number of monuments of ancient culture are concentrated, that's why the excursion tour to Rome in its numerous variants is so popular.
Architectural monuments of Rome are distinguished by a specialsplendor and grandeur, amazing imagination. That there is only one Coliseum, which was erected manually, without the use of modern technology. Many temples of the times of the Great Roman Empire rise next to the luxurious Catholic cathedrals. After all, as is known, on the remains of the Ancient Roman Empire a new religion arose - Catholicism. Its center is also in Rome, and a tour to Rome can have its main point of visit to the Vatican.
And if you are interested in the Middle Ages, take a walkfrom the Campo de Fiumi square to Navona square, it is here that you will find beautiful old architectural quarters framed by the Tiber river, and here you can admire old times, wandering around the city streets.
And the magnificent fountains of the Turtle, Trevi, Triton -this is the era of the Renaissance, Rome, which created the great masters of the past. A tour to Rome can not be a quick walk through the historical center, in this city it is almost impossible.
In Rome, modernity envelops the past, notletting it collapse, creating a beautiful ensemble, thoughtful and at the same time direct. Here closely intertwined centuries and epochs, fashionable modern boutiques organically blended in the neighborhood with centuries-old temples, and all this makes you come back here again and again.
However, not all tourists have sufficienta reserve of time, which they can devote entirely to rest. Here for such busy travelers have developed tours to Rome for the weekend. For two or three days you can get to know the main sights or wander through the ancient streets and quarters of the "eternal city". Choosing such short tours to Rome from Moscow, St. Petersburg or other cities, you can have a great weekend. And at the end of the trip, throwing a coin to say goodbye to the Trevi Fountain, you will suddenly feel that this city is not just a point on the map, but a part of your life.
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