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This article is written to be a guide for all those people who are interested in learning Italian in Rome, following a course in an italian language school and knowing something about the Eternal City.

There are four language skills: reading, writing ability, knowing how to listen and ability to speak. All those things must be developed since the first level of expertise in order to achieve the ability to understand and express themselves

in authentic communication’s situations. Travel in Rome and staying in Italy for a medium period, can give the opportunity to learn italian language together with the history and culture of one of the greatest civilizations of all time:

the Romans Places to discover and learn in Rome are so many. We want introduce the most important places to visit of this singular and unique city in the world that match contrasting styles and live art and life: Imperial Rome and Baroque Rome, worldclass Rome and less-style Rome.

Colosseum – Is the most important monument of ancient Rome, built in 75 A.C. and opened in 80 A.C.The area of about 19,000 square meters was organized into four orders, each of which could contain up to 70,000 spectators. At center stage was placed the Empire, who with a single gesture could decide the life or death of gladiators. In underground were organized and carried out the scenery of the games. In 438 a.c. games were banned and Coliseum was gradually abandoned.

Roman Forum – The Roman Forum was founded in the sixth century B.C. On swampy land that was drained by the built of a sewerage system. In a short time it became the center of political and social life of ancient Rome, enriching century

after century of new buildings, statues, temples, courts. From Via Salaria (parallel to the Via dei Fori Imperiali) you have access to this incredible archaeological area, almost a city within the city.

Circous Maximus – This huge structure was used as entertainment shows such as exciting race with “bighe”, much loved by the Romans. The building was able to accommodate up to 250,000 spectators and is one of the oldest in Rome.Other

places to visit are Domus Aurea,Pantheon,Terme di Caracalla, Ara Pacis Augustae,Piramide Cestia,Castel Sant’Angelo,Circo di Massenzio,Cloaca Massima,Ludus Magnus and so much others. The most important Square of Rome are : Piazza di Spagna, Piazza Navona, Campo de Fiori, Piazza Venezia, Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Barberini.

It’s very easy find a good accomodations in Rome: Bed & Breakfast and hotels are the most usefull housing but you can also have an accommodation with host-families or in flats where sleep in single or double rooms and have free use of the bathroom and kitchen.

Finally something about the position and Logistics: Rome is located in the centre of Italy, 20 minutes from the sea tirreno. It has two airports: Leonardo da Vinci (Fiumicino), located 32 km from the city centre and Ciampino,

15 km. The main railway station in Rome is Termini Station, located in the heart of the city. There are two subway lines and so many bus-lines.

There are a lot of monuments that we can admire going on a few days trip to Rome. Once in a lifetime even a short travel to Rome is obligatory.

If you have never been in the Eternal City, the advice is absolutely to start booking a room in one Rome hotel, so to be able to admire with your own eyes so many architectural beauties to leave breathless. In this section we will talk about the seven hills of Rome, one of the characteristics and one of the most famous tradition of this wonderful city.

According to the tradition, Rome was built on seven hills, all located East of the River Tiber. These seven hills would represent so the heart of the city. The seven hill are the Aventine, the Capitoline, the Caelian, the Esquiline, the Palatine, the Quirinal and the Viminal hill. These hills did have a very important role on the ancient roman mythology, religion and politics.
According to the tradition, Roma was founded by Romulus on the Palatine hill. In fact, right on the top and on the foot of this hill several finds have been found, these finds could be dated back to the age of the first urban settlements. This finds can be also easily admired at the Palatine hill museum, for whoever wants to sleep in Rome for some days.

The Palatine hill area turned out to be inhabited since the I millennium B.C. At the beginning there was just a small village, all surrounded by wetlands. This first urban agglomerate stayed almost unchanged for a couple of centuries, it was the so-called “Roma Quadrata” (Rome square), because of the roughly rhomboid shape of the top of the hill it was located on. The expansion, in the VIII century A.D, of the original unit and the fusion with some tribes located nearby originated that city on the seven hills, however they were not the traditionally known seven hills, but just some minor heights, that are the two of Palatine hill, the Caelian and the Velian, and the three Esquiline west heights.

Only from the IV century A.D., thanks to the building of the walls, built under the reign of king Servius Tullius, an expanded city was enclosed, that contained also the other hills, that means the traditional seven hills.

Seven is a recurrent number in the ancient roman mythology. The Latin terms Septimontium (that means seven hills) was used by the ancient Romans to celebrate a religious festival in the area of the seven hills, that would be exactly the area of Rome. From the ancient time, this special festival, related to the seven hills, was created, it seems, by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome after Romulus. This festival in practice was a long procession along the seven hills with sacrifices to celebrate the 27 Argei’s sepulchers, that were on those hills. According to the tradition, the Argei were the heroic Greek princes who, arrived in Lazio following Hercules, would have conquered the hills on which Rome would have been built from the Sicels and the Liguri populations.

These are just some of the stories and legends you could live fist hand, if you will decide to spend a few days in some nice Rome apartments. Rome is a wonderful city, at every step you could find some incredible monuments and some past traces. Histories and legends on this Eternal City are countless, from its foundation up to our days, Rome has always been a magic city, in which everything can happen.

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