Yesterday was the birthday of my city, 2776 years that Rome exists, I love this place, it happens sometimes that walking I am moved by how beautiful it is.
I want to share some pictures with you friends of the Smith & Wesson forum

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Marcello

Happy Birthday... will see if the wife wants to eat Italian food to celebrate

Happy Birthday. I’d love to live in your country.

We were in Rome, along with Venice and Florence, in 2019.

Going to the Amalfi coast, Naples, Sorrento, Capri, this Oct.

If I may.

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Stand back.

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on the last pic the Founder of Rome

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Marcello

did you count them well, are you sure they are 2776?

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Marcello

Historical

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Marcello - your last pic in the first set, of a piazza/courtyard, I don't recognize. Where, what is that? It looks like it used to be circus.

Rome is an incredibly beautiful city, judging by photos. I'm sure it is even more beautiful in person. But as an American, I am most jealous of the history. Being able to actually touch the past. A 300 year old building in the U.S.A. is ancient. In Rome? I think they have Starbucks that old.

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aerial view of Piazza Navona with the Fountain of Four Rivers by GianLorenzo Bernini in front of the church of Santa Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini.
These two Architects were enemies, and the statue in front of the church raise the hand as protection to the crash of the building to signify that the architect enemy was incompetent.

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Marcello

Your country is one of the place most beautiful of the world, and your is a great people. We have a long history and this long history has made us more passive, because we have seen that over the centuries events changed and then repeated themselves.
Your history is shorter and this makes you bravers, because up until 100 years ago you fought and it is still not a forgotten era, i believe.
There is like a parallel story, you are now like the Roman Empire was 2000 years ago, strong and courageous.

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Marcello

It's a a a city. Not much I want to go to any city for. I went to France saw the churches museums Eiffel tower...London Moscow Rome Singapore Bangkok other "great cities". Just my opinion but cities are places to stay out of. And that includes US cities too.

Inside The Parthenon

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Vatican

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Following the group @ Piazza Navona

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Marcello, please tell us about the arch in the fourth picture, first post. Does it celebrate a great military victory?

Rome is one of my favorite Texas cities along the Rio Grande.

I think that's Roma....?

My birthplace, Warrington, England, is 1330 miles North West of you. It was founded by the Romans around 100 AD.

Who knows? We could be cousins.

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Rome, Ohio? No, not so old.

I have never been to Rome. Never got South of Frankfort, Germany. Enjoyed my travels but no real desire to go again. Too much to see here.

But, please, keep posting your images! Absolutely gorgeous, and stimulating!

Kevin

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Ah Roma! still kicking myself for not getting there. Just so many places to go. What a beautiful city.

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It's the Pantheon. Originally the place where all of the Roman gods were displayed and worshiped. Oldest continually in use building in Rome I believe. It's now a Catholic church.

Such a simple concept so difficult for so many to understand.
Please excuse the drift.

I consider Rome to be my hometown - Rome, Mississippi, that is. Actually, we lived out in the country, maybe three miles from town. It lost its incorporation around 1930, and had a population of maybe 200, plus or minus, when I was growing up - I don't know if it is even that now. Blink your eyes on Highway 49W and you are past it. Around twelve or so years ago I was up there visiting the cemetary where my parents and grandparents, and other relatives are buried, and drove down the "Main Street" where there used to be two or three small stores, a farm office, and the post office, and all that was left were some crumbling brick walls - I called it the "ruins of Rome".

I would love to see your great city, Enne-Frame, but at my age I don't know if that will happen. My father who was from Rome, actually got to see your Rome in 1944, while with the 5th Army in WWII.

Thanks for sharing your photographs of the eternal city.

Before the advent of the AD (now CE), BCE dating system the Roman Empire used Anno Urbis (the year of the city). So we are celebrating 2776 AU. I've seen that usage in a few scholarly history papers when dating events in the Roman Empire.

Eternally grateful to your father and his brothers in arms.
Just tomorrow will be Liberation Day, when Italy was liberated from the Nazi invader, without ever forgetting the responsibility of having been allies of the Nazis.
Honor and glory to the liberators

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Loved those pictures. I walked down most all of those streets. A few (near the Roman Forum) were the original cobblestone where people walked those 2775 years ago. I left a US Gold Dollar coin in the Trevie Fountain (Sp?)

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Although my father was born in Rome, I'm sad to say, I have never been there. :-(
Naples and Venice are the only places I've seen.

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My paternal grandparents were born near Naples. My daughter went to Italy a couple years ago for 10 days. She is going back this fall. A couple years ago, I connected with a cousin that I never knew I had. She moved to Montreal in 1963. My grandfather and her grandfather were brothers

The architecture of ancient Rome and Greece never ceases to amaze me, along with the imagination of construction tooling to deal with such heavy stone.

Some of the roads and aqueducts are still in use today.

If I am not mistaken, thee coliseum was built on top of what was Nero's gardens

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I ain't no fortunate son

My wife spends hours a day on ancestry. All her grandparents came out of the same town, Avellino. Many of the immigrants out of there settled in Dobbs Ferry NY, where she grew up.

She has found, like you, a slew of relatives she never knew about.

My mothers side came out of Anoia, Calabria. They lived in East Harlem.

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Thank to all, your appreciate is welcome, as i have read in this page many of you have visited this town and other have family members born or living in my country, this makes me very proud and doesn't make me feel like a foreigner in this forum.

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The arch of emperator SETTIMIO SEVERO about 200 A.C.
From the reliefs still partially visible today, it can be deduced that the triumphal arch in his honor was erected to celebrate the victorious military campaign against the Parthians (people of today's states of Iran and Iraq), one of the most feared adversaries by the Romans both before that after the birth of the Empire.

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Marcello

Was in Rome in 1984. Was on USS Saratoga and we stopped in Naples. A friend and I road the Rapido from Naples to Rome. Got a city map and walked all over the city. Was very glad we did.

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Today is the 2777th birthday of my beloved Rome. I renew my happiness at being born in such a beautiful and unique place.

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Marcello

Buon compleanno

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You forgot to include a pic of the myth of its origin




If Romulus hadn't killed Remus, it might have been called "Rema" instead of "Roma", which just doesn't sound right!

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My Latin is a little rusty but I think the inscription says something like, "It took Marcus Agrippa three tries to build this"

(Actually, “Marcus Agrippa, the son of Lucius, three times consul, built this.” History here.)

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Wonder who actually did all of the building and where the financing was sourced?

I'm still on my morning coffee so I think I'll put on the headhones and listen to Respighi's Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome. (Then maybe the Trittico Botticelliano, Church Windows, Ancient Airs and Dances... to heck with doing the window trim!)

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I was just looking this up. From Wikipedia:

The dedicatory inscription on the arch reads in English:

"To the emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Parthicus Arabicus Parthicus Adiabenicus, son of Marcus, father of his country, Pontifex Maximus, in the eleventh year of his tribunician power, in the eleventh year of his rule, consul thrice, and proconsul, and to the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius Felix, son of Lucius, in the sixth year of his tribunician power, consul, and proconsul (fathers of their country, the best and bravest emperors), on account of the restored republic and the rule of the Roman people spread by their outstanding virtues at home and abroad, the Senate and the People of Rome (sc. dedicate this monument)"

Septimius Severus was ruling jointly as emperor with his son Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) when the arch was dedicated. The parenthesized section in the middle is text that replaced an original reference to his other son Geta, which was chiseled out upon Geta's damnatio memoriae as by Caracalla to erase his memory in history. [He was murdered by Caracalla]

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What a beautiful place!!

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There are a few Rome's in Ohio. one just west of Columbus, was the greatest speed trap you ever saw (Until the state outlawed their Police Force!). There is one about halfway between Delaware and Sunbury That has a five-way intersection and is now called Rome's Corners. It is no longer a town, never had a Zip Code, and maybe 25 people live within the old boundaries. It make my beloved Harlem look like Metropolis!

Ivan

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I left a US Gold Dollar coin in the Trevie Fountain (Sp?)

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If I knew you were going I would have had you leave one for me.

And who did the surveys, ran the titles and issued the title insurance policies?

[QUOTE=Ivan the Butcher;141982603]There are a few Rome's in Ohio. one just west of Columbus, was the greatest speed trap you ever saw (Until the state outlawed their Police Force!). There is one about halfway between Delaware and Sunbury That has a five-way intersection and is now called Rome's Corners. It is no longer a town, never had a Zip Code, and maybe 25 people live within the old boundaries. It make my beloved Harlem look like Metropolis!

Ivan[/QUOTE/]

I've been through the one over by Strawhat.

I've never been to Rome, but here's my favorite view of Trevi Fountain:



Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita.

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Fountain? What fountain?

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She won’t drown.

Almost exactly 1000 years before the founding of the USA.

Ever-so-slightly more than "six degrees of separation", I think. But you could do a DNA test...

This thread pretty definitively answers the ~50 year old question, "Wot 'ave the Romans ever done for us?"

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Marcello, my only visit to Rome was too brief, and long ago by several decades...But it is a treasured memory as a high point in an all too short 20 day leave I took while serving in West Germany......Ben

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