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Fiumicino
Airport - Rome has two major airports, Leonardo da Vinci
- still frequently known by its old name, Fiumicino - for scheduled
flights and Ciampino which handles mainly charter flights and business
aviation. At Leonardo da Vinci the airport operator, Aeroporti di
Roma, is spending large amounts of money in expanding and upgrading
terminal facilities to meet the needs of growing traffic numbers and
shaking off the airport's rather modest reputation. There are now
three terminals one of which, Terminal C, is linked to a satellite.
New shopping and catering areas have been introduced in Terminal B
as the plans to sharpen up the image and quality of Rome's major airport
gathers pace.
Spanish
Steps - Rome. The piazza, church and famous Scalinata Spagna
(Spanish Steps) have long provided a gathering place for foreigners.
Built with a legacy from the French in 1725, but named after the Spanish
Embassy to the Holy See (which is still located in the piazza), the
steps lead to the French church. In May each year the steps are decorated
with pink azaleas. lf you can't manage the steps there's a lift to
the top outside the Spanish Steps metro station. It might look like
the perfect spot for a picnic, but don't get too enthusiastic. Theoretically
you are not allowed to eat whilst sitting on the steps. The municipai
police who patrol the area can be quite strict, and transgressors
can be fined. lt's all aimed at keeping the steps clean after a major
restoration in 1995-96, but the police would do better to catch the
vandals who are defacing Rome's monuments with graffiti.
Vatican
- The word VATICAN is an ancient place-name of Etruscan origin.
In pre-Christian times it was applied to a vast area of swampy land
stretching between what is today Trastevere and Monte Mario. During
the Imperial age, however, the area was transformed into sprawling
parks, with huge arenas built for sporting events. In fact, what is
now St.Peter’s Square was probably a circus for chariot racing,
and the sire where early Christians in the early part of the 4th Century,
constructed a great basilica on the site of what is thought to be
St. Peter’s Tomb. The current St. Peter’s, built during
the 16th and 17th centuries, replaced that basilica.
For centuries the Popes lived in the area of the right bank of the
Tiber that has become the Vatican City, but the Vatican only developed
into the Church’s governmental center in the 14th Century when
Pope Gregory XI returned from exile in Avignon. From the late 16th
through the mid-19th centuries, the Popes again neglected the Vatican,
preferring to live in a new palace on the Quirinale Hill, where they
believed the air was healthier. It was only after 1870 and the political
unification of Italy that the Popes permanently returned to the Vatican.
And it was not until 1929, when the Lateran Treaty between Italy and
the Holy See recognized its sovereignty and defined its boundaries,
that the State of the Vatican City was established as the official
home of the Pope and the center of the Roman Catholic Church. The
Vatican is the smallest sovereign state in the world (its 108 1/2
acres make it one-third the size of Monaco). It has its own currency,
postal service, passport, newspapers, radio station and railroad system.
Its population of less than 1000 consists almost entirely of Church
personnel, Vatican administrators and representatives of international
organizations.
Pantheon
: - The PANTHEON nestles in the midst of a warren of winding little
streets about halfway between the Corso and the Piazza Navona, in
Rome’s old central quarter. Externally, its gray, forbidding
bulk seems oppressive at close quarters, like some perfectly immense
tortoise stuck in a maze. The bricked excavation trench around part
of its base is home to scores of stray cats. The severe portico is
borne by 16 smooth unfluted columns, each more that 14 feet around
and 41 feet high. The massive bronze entrance doors are the originals,
believe it or not, and although the interior stands stripped of most
ancient adornments, it is structurally intact.
The Pantheon is the best preserved, in fact, of all great Classical
monuments. Admiral Agrippa, who defeated Anthony and Cleopatra at
Actium, dedicated the Pantheon in 27 BC. Its seven interior niches
were apparently designed for the seven planetary deities, Apollo,
Diana, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, who also ruled over
the days of the week, maintaining total control of the space-time
continuum. In short, the Pantheon was built to incorporate late-pagan
faith at its most philosophical beliefs. The soaring dome expresses
that function miraculously well. The dome’s diameter is precisely
the same as its interior height: 142 feet. At its apex there is a
bronze- lipped circular aperture 30 feet across, wide open to the
weather and also to the changing angles of light ordained from hour
to hour by the circlings of the sun and moon overhead.
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