Rome-between history and myth
Rome’s great artistic and cultural value, its unique monuments, wonderful landscapes and traditional hospitality, make this enchanting city one of the favourite destinations for tourists from all over the world. Rome welcomes tourists, business men, scholars, lovers, sportsmen, wanderers and travellers. Without presumptuousness, but with a little pride, Rome shows her thousand different faces that, in the course of centuries, blended together to make the unique city we can visit today: from the legendary Rome of its mythological founders Romolo and Remo, to the modern metropolis of the third millennium, passing through the Middle Ages, the baroque’s triumph of the XVII century and the post-modern architecture of the last decades.
Sightseeing in Rome is a charming journey through ancient history and nowadays everyday life of the inhabitants. This fascinating journey can be taken both visiting important museums, such as Musei Capitolini, but also walking around admiring ancient ruins, wonderful churches, baroque buildings and fountains, beside architectural beauties of the beginning of the XX century and post modern structures. One of those is surely the Sports Hall, a masterpiece of Nervi’s genius, once main crossroad of the World Fair of Rome but now called, after recent renovations, Palalottomatica. That is the sports hall where this great sport event, the Volleyball Senior Men’s European 2005 Championship, will be played.