There's no place like Rome: the Eternal City is in the midst of a modern-day Renaissance. American transplant Mimi Murphy takes a look at its unexpected new energy.(City overview)

From: Town & Country | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Murphy, Mimi | Copyright information

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Rome has plenty of marvelous views, but the most encompassing of all is the newest. That would be from the previously inaccessible Quadriga terrace on top of the huge white Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Piazza Venezia, next door to Rome's Michelangelo-designed Piazza del Campidoglio, in the dead center of the city. After more than twenty-five years of living here, I'm still awed by Rome's skyline of cupolas and bell towers from centuries past, s...

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