ROME

Espresso at the counter, Fiats through narrow streets, and evenings that drift into piazzas where locals and visitors share the night. Rome feels familiar—power and proportion echo Athens. The past isn’t a museum piece here; it’s embedded in the street plan, the arches, the layers of brick and travertine. You feel it in how the city moves: measured, confident, unhurried. It teaches scale and duration. Rome—the Eternal City—is spectacular.