Just Imagine, you're born and your parents practically deliver a religion for you to follow and believe more than anything in your life. Just Imagine, spend all your childhood listening to your parents talking about God, going to Church, the head of the Catholic Church - Pope, and finally find out that the Pope lives in Rome, Europe - in a different Continent. First years I thought: Europe is so far from where I live and don't know if one day I'll be able to see the Pope or even know where he lives. Rome is part of so many people's dream, not only to learn about Christianism stamped in every corner of Rome but also because Rome is one of the most important cities of history in Europe.
When I arrived at the airport Leonardo da Vinci the first thing I thought was: I should definitely try the famous Italian Pizza, but I was completely tired and had to catch the train to Frascati, where I was supposed to stay for two days. Frascati is a town near Rome but small and with not so much history. It was cold at that time and I finally had the opportunity to eat a pizza. The pizza was tasty but I certainly admit that it was not that wonderfull as expected cause the flavor of that pizza was not new for me. The difference was the size, the cheese and price - very cheap. I was surprised the next day when at breakfast time, there was a bottle of wine at each table in the Hotel restaurant. I found it strange to see a bottle of wine so early in the morning, but didn't question it. The breakfast was huge, delicious, especially the bread.
Two days later I was at Vatican in Rome, for the first time. There where lots of people at Vatican and from what I heard, its always extremely full, even full of local people. It is a beautiful building, full of statues and also full of souvenir vendors. On the first day I was more focused on taking pictures rather than live the place. The beauty makes you look at each detail of each corner.
Each corner with a church, music with piano and voices after 5pm ..., and the sound ... the same sound that we hear in any Christian Church. The sound of those voices was the only thing that made me see a similarity with my country at all. I remember the Mosaic floors, marble walls, buildings with the colors of the season, without that strong and different colors used in my country, lol. In my country each house is painted differently, nobody cares if the left neighbor has got yellow and if the right neighbor has got Red in his apartment, I am going to have blue and thats all, lol. This is what I call freedom of expressing tastes without asking for permission. I wondered when I walked by Rome, why the apartments were all painted with same color? To be honest, its beautiful the way they are, it seemed to be dead colors but full of history and European style. I would say that the architects in Europe are also a big designers and artists cause they certainly make architecture and art at the same time.
To see the true art and culture of Rome you just need to see the ruins and historic buildings spread around the city, there are plenty of them. Some are more prominent for sure as the Coliseum/Coliseu, the Vatican which is the Pope's residence, Castel Sant' Angelo, Fontana di Trevi, the Arch of Constantine, etc.
Funny, the Coliseum had this men dressed just like the ancient times, all stuck at the main gate. Wow, they really looked brilliant and I did not hesitate taking as many pictures I could. Amazing to see them dressing like that, making us remind of the films/movies we use to watch about Rome.
I certainly recommend Rome for those who still never been to Italy. You will love it, I promise!
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