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A long overnight express train snaked its way into Rome from Northern Italy, abandoning me in a rather undistinguished white architecture railway station in the middle of an ebullient throng, each individual clamouring for my attention: their taxis, hotels, hostels, restaurants, girls, being the best... Self-assured pigeons meddling with unsuspecting passers-by; insolently languid cats pushing tourists aside so that they can lie in the warm sunshine; a proud face aware of her pristine beauty emerging from a crowd just to disappear a few seconds later; the vastness of Saint Peter's Square criss-crossed by an incessant multitude, all jostling as if they were to catch a glimpse of that white patriarchal figure leaning out of one of the windows; a girl's bottom clad in Levis 501 staring opposite the Vatican Museum with the shameless impudence of the young; German teenage girls being seduced by street portrait painters on the steps of Fontana di Trevi; a child climbing in wonder the steps of Piazza Spagna; Australian backpackers congregating at the foot of these steps, not sure of what to do next; the smouldering sun glaring from its bed in the photographic blueness of the sky; the layers of history yelling in almost every corner of the city, its Roman tectonic plate erupting unexpectedly on every available urban fissure; the rich golden aura of the Vatican with the extraordinary unevenness of the plaster on those walls covered by incredible frescoes... Rome... city of lovers, mothers, dreams, ghosts... Florence, Tuscany, Lucca, Siena, Vicenza » Comment »
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