Rome still bears witness to the enormous empire it once controlled which went
from Great Britain to Mesopotamia. The city is still dotted with archaeological
sites, beautiful palazzos and grand monuments that adorn every corner of the city’s
centre, allowing us to enjoy a sort of double dimension: there is the Eternal
City we come across at every turn as we spot the fragment of an ancient column
here and there, and then there is the modern city which reinvents itself every
day giving it a new and dynamic identity.
Hotel d’Inghilterra is near to many of the vestiges of historical Rome: the Spanish
Steps with its monumental stairway and the house in which the poet John Keats
lived, the Trevi Fountain next to Palazzo Poli, the ancient Roman temple dedicated
to the gods of Olympus known as the Pantheon, Villa Borghese and its Bernini sculptures,
Galleria Borghese and the National Gallery of Modern Art. Modern Rome is also
not far away and a visit to Renzo Piano’s Auditorium Parco della Musica and the
so-called “Cloud” by Fuksas at the new EUR congress centre is well worth your
while.
