The squares and fountains of the Eternal City
Italy ... It's impossible not to love her, her love for her grows gradually and gradually, you fall in love with her, looking at the landscapes of Levitan, Aivazovsky and Piranesi's engraving, she admires her, walking two weeks along the streets of another city together with the heroes of Irwin Shaw, when rushing along Rome with Professor Robert Langdon, trying to have time to solve the mysteries of the mysterious Illuminati .And when it's time to meet with her, you go to find out what you saw, get acquainted with the new and comprehend it .She begins to live in you long before you see her personally, and you can open it for yourself infinitely, breathing it and living it, it flows into the blood and nourishes its strength and energy, its wisdom and history, its antiquity and novelty .
I was waiting for the meeting with the Eternal City for a long time, it was the object of the dream № 1 .But, dreams must come true to give way to other dreams and my journey through the capital of the world began .I walk at first timidly and timidly, then more and more confidently, and now I am surrounded by a noisy multilingual crowd in Piazza Rotonda, I sit on the steps of the fountain with my almost native, after a repeated visit to Egypt, the obelisk and prepare to enter the "temple of all gods" .In front of me is the Pantheon .The hour struck, it's time to meet the past and, leaving the present behind, I make the first step into the twilight of the ancient temple .There are no windows, only the eye of heaven is closely watching you .If you guess and come here at noon, the pillar of light pouring through the 9-meter hole in the dome becomes almost palpable and it seems you can, having scooped it up with your hand, take with you .
| Vittoriano on the Venetian Square |
| Bridge over the Tiber and view of the beautiful St. Peter's Cathedral |
| Trevi Fountain |
Further, my path lay to Piazza Navona, the beautiful Piazzale Roma with a magnificent fountain of "four rivers", created by fountains by master Lorenzo Bernini .It is impossible to tear your eyes from the mighty backs and torsos of incredible ancient handsome men, personifying the gods of the great rivers - the Nile, Danube Ganges and La Plata .But, it's time to take shelter under the awning of a cafe, drink a little toning ice Frascati, one of the best white wines in the world, able to quench the thirst of a tired traveler on a hot day and try to feel this mysterious dolce far niente incomprehensible to the Russian, and especially the Moscow soul, eat on the run .Try it, what it's like to be a resident of Rome, a frequenter of a cozy cafe that does not need to hurry anywhere, you do not need to rush headlong around the city in time to see all the places marked on the map .I know that in exactly 20 minutes I'll run further, for now - dolce far niente .
The next object of my trip is the center of Rome - Piazza Venezia, I really want to see whether the monument to the first king of a single Italy, Victor Emmanuel II, is similar, at the same time, to a typewriter, a wedding cake and a false jaw, or Italians exaggerate. I believe that the descendants of Romulus and Ram are so unpleasant about the Altar of the Fatherland because of the fact that a whole block with Renaissance palaces was destroyed for the sake of freeing up the place for the pompous ensemble.
Feeling all the power and strength of the monument towering over the city, I go further to Piazza Spain to walk along the familiar ladder of the Roman Vacations .Here she is Scullinata, already at my feet .Defiling in the absence of super-models on the podium of the High Fashion and going down to the Barkachcha fountain .Incredibly, the water in the Roman fountains is drinking, and the one that is fed to Barkaccha from Aqua Virgo Aqueduct is considered to be the purest and tastiest..In residential buildings in the center of the city, water comes from another aqueduct and locals are stockpiled with life-giving moisture in street fountains - they surely know that Aqua Virgo is water with a sign of quality .So drink not afraid..
And I ran to the most-most in the world of the fountain .Trevi .After all, it was there that filmed the "Sweet Life" by Fellini, Anita Ekberg bathed in it .Repeat water procedures movie star I definitely will not succeed, just admire this magnificent theatrical performance, built according to the sketches of maestro Bernini .Yes, but where are the coins stored for the fountain, which must fulfill the cherished desire and at the same time replenish the treasury of the city? Here they are, my family, I will not break the tradition, throwing coins into the purest water pouring here, from all the same, Aqua Virgo and leave this enchanting place in the hope of returning here .
The city is already dusk, and it's time for me to go to San Pietro in Montorio, where a magnificent view of Rome opens and where "you should wait until sunset" to delight in the charm of the colors of the evening. Rest, beloved city, I'll part with you for a little while in the hope of a new meeting. Ti amo, Roma. Arivederci.