ROME EUROPE ITALY TUSCANY FLORENCE FORTI CARRARA EMILIA ROMAGNA BOLOGNA RIMINI RAVENA VENETO VENICE VERONA PADUA LE MARCHE URBINO CAMPANIA POMPEII PAESTUM NAPLES AMALFI COAST CAPRI LOMBARDY THE LAKES MILAN BERGAMO TURIN LAKE ORTA LIGURIA CINQUE TERRE SESTRE LEVANTE PORTOVENERE GENOA SANREMO ALBENGA FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA AQUILEIA SICILY TRAPANI ERICE TAORMINA SIRACUSA SELINUNTE SEGESTA AGRIGENTO PALERMO MONREALE NOTO RAGUSA MT ETNA CATANIA SARDEGNA PUGLIA MALTA CROATIA DALMATIAN COAST DUBROVNIK SPLIT HVAR TROGIR KORCULA ISTRIAN PENINSULA OPATIJA POREC PULA VODNJAN ROVINJ ZAGREB SPAIN ANDALUSIA GRANADA RONDA CARMONA JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA COSTA DEL SOL MALAGA MADRID CANTABRIA CATALAN BARCELONA TARRAGONA VALENCIA MANCHA TOLEDO EXTREMADURA MRIDA MAJORCA GIBRALTAR PORTUGAL ALGARVE LISBON SINTRA GREECE ATHENS CRETE DODECANESE ISLANDS RHODES ISLANDS SANTORINI MYKONOS IONIAN ISLANDS CORFU TURKEY ISTANBUL CAPPADOCIA BODRUM AEGEAN COAST FRANCE PARIS NORMANDY LOIRE VALLEY BURGUNDY LANGUEDOC DORDOGNE VERDUN PAYS BASQUE SWITZERLAND LUCERNE AUSTRIA VIENNA GERMANY BERLIN HUNGARY BUDAPEST CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE POLAND WARSAW KRAKOW LONDON NORTHERN SCOTLAND DENMARK COPENHAGEN SWEDEN STOCKHOLM RUSSIA MOSCOW ST PETERSBURG LITHUANIA VILNIUS ESTONIA TALLINN AFRICA MOROCCO MARRAKECH TUNISIA LE KEF KAIROUAN EL DJEM SBEITLA DJERBA INDIA DELHI AGRA RAJASTAN CHINA BEIJING SHANGHAI THAILAND BANGKOK CHIANG MAI PHUKET INDONESIA BALI AUSTRALIA SYDNEY NEW ZEALAND THE NORTH ISLAND AMERICAS SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK BOSTON MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE VERMONT SOUTH AMERICA PHOTOS TRAVEL TIPS LAZIO THE VENETO THE CINQUE TERRE PIEDMONT MILAN SARDINIA PELOPONNESE GREEK ISLANDS COSTA BRAVA BALEARIC ISLANDS ALTAMIRA PREHISTORIC CAVES SAN SEBASTIAN BILBAO CUENCA THE ALGARVE BORDEAUX RHONE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON UNITED KINGDON ENGLAND IRELAND WALES NORTHERN EUROPE MOSCOW SAINT PETERSBURG ZEALAND SYDNEY AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND NORTH ISLAND ASIA SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA MASSACHUSETTS VERMONT MAINE SOUTH ABOUT US ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY COMMENTS WANDER 8TH CENTURY BC THE 21ST CENTURY DAYS ARCHITECTURAL STYLES ETERNAL ITSELF THE CLASSICAL 1ST CENTURY BC 4TH CENTURY AD CHRISTIAN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE THE 18TH CENTURY BENITO MUSSOLINI WANTED BUILD THE THIRD ROME REBIRTH ITALIAN EMPIRE MODERN TIMES THE PRIME MINISTER DESIRE THE ANCIENT THE ROMAN EMPIRE MIGHT UTOPIAN SOCIALIST DREAM SOON MUTATED NIGHTMARE AUTOCRATIC TOTALITARIAN MUSSOLINI IL DUCE TERM DERIVED ROMAN COMPLETION VIA DEI FORI IMPERIALI THE AVENUE IMPERIAL FORUMS THE ROMAN MARBLE BRONZE MAPS EXTERIOR WALL BASILICA OF MAXENTIUS COLLEGE WOMEN MARKED BIRTH THE 2ND PUNIC WARS 146BC EMPIRE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS EXTENT THE EMPIRE EMPEROR TRAJAN VISION NEW ROMAN EMPIRE FRANCES CORSICA EASTERN AFRICA LIBYA EGYPT THE SUDAN ETHIOPIA CONQUER ALBANIA THE REST NEVER DAMAGED AFTER THE WAR DISAPPEARED FOR A WHILE THE EARLY 2000S STORAGE EVER REIGN APRIL 28TH CLARA CAPTURED COMMUNIST PARTISANS SHORES LAKE APRIL 29TH BODIES SUSPENDED RAFTERS GAS STATION PIAZZALE LORETO APRIL 30TH ADOLF HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE WORLD WAR II CHANGED THE FACE EVEN THOUGH HUNDREDS BUILDINGS DISPLACED THOUSANDS PEOPLE TO DO RATIONAL ARCHITECTURE MUSSOLINIS FASCISM ECHOED BLOOD PUMPING MILITARY PARADES PROPAGANDA FILMS PRO FASCIST NEW ROME WIDE BOULEVARDS PROPAGANDA ARCHITECTURE RATIONALISTS EMBRACED SLEEK MINIMAL MODERNIST STEEL AND GLASS RETAINED REVERENCE ANCIENT CLASSICAL LINES STYLIZED DOMES BOCCIONI SCULPTURE CENT EURO COIN RATIONALISM THE ITALIAN FUTURISM MOVEMENT ARTISTIC MOVEMENT OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR THE LEADERS UMBERTO BOCCIONI OBVERSE IMAGE OF MASTERPIECE UNIQUE FORMS OF CONTINUITY IN