It didn't take me long to realize that beneath every step I made in Rome, I was walking on top of history. The
Roman Forum is one of the more famous historic holes dug around the city, a city that is passionately linked to the history buried under its feet...
or incorporated into its buildings (
Theater of Marcellus)...
or simply given right of way because it was there first. This respect for the past is because modern Rome knows that the dirt and stones they walk on are the embodiment of tradition and family.
This respect leads to the preservation of ancient fragments no mater where it might be found. Midway up a wall in the sub-basement of the
Capitoline Museum or...
as a subterranean window boxes in a
Metropolitana station.
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