Roman skyline

The Ethernal City is dense of history, and so is its skyline, a regional park where culture, art, walking, eating, and drinking is a long lasting tradition.

Skyline defines and shapes a city, represent the landscape that makes us understand where we are, the overall view, the panorama and the geometric movement of a place.

In North American megalopolis  long lines of skyscrapers, futuristic designs and proper architectural challenges to the laws of gravitation, indentify a city. European capitals, urban settlements, are usually more harmonious and ancient, especially if considering Mediterranean Europe, and Italy in particular. Unmistakable roundness, most diversely shaped bell towers, volumetric evidences of historical era and passages, colours that highlight citizen's peculiarities and the climate, eccentric modernities, towers, castles, fortresses, in other words 'Goody Old Europe'. 

Europeanness, the essence of a patchwork of thoughts, religions, nations and diverse people, is probably to be found in the nuances range of the constant dialogue between buildings and the surrounding environment.
White mountains or lakes sided by pearl streams of light, sweet hills or colorful coastal landscapes, European cities skyline is always marked with a graduality in contructing century after century a stratification of human settlements among natural elements, with some exception, such as postWWII Rotterdam recreated as a kindergarted for creative architects willing to experiment the most innovative theories and techniques.

One of Italian peculiarities there's one regarding the capital, a city where the tallest building cannot be higher than the 'Cuppolone', Saint Peter's cupola and that obviously has not many skyscrapers nor a prominent vertical expansion.

In Rome, after millenia of debates and fights with 'palazzinari', building speculators of every reign, empire, p Roma, nonostante millenni di discussioni e litigi con i palazzinari di ogni regno, impero, papacy or republic, nature kept rounding in a huge hug the Ethernal City  and the small cities and villages often built well before Urbe was condita. The hug of the Lucretili Mounts, massif developed mainly in Sabina region, at the moment regional park with many stories to tell.
It has been some time since associations have started again to appreciate and live Roman skyline as a place to explore, in full respect of nature, rediscovering paths that inspired sage, scholar's dissertations and unforgivable poems to artists like Lucretius, Horace, Emperor Hadrian or more recently, so to speak, Galileo Galilei, one of the first associated to the Accademia de' Lincei founded by Federico Cesi, who loved inviting his guests in the so called Linceo's Amphitheatre, a Karst plain close to Pratoni locality. Easy to guess that also in ancient times there was some indulgence on good food and eno-gastronomical traditions of the area where nowadays is still possible to enjoy delis prepared following recipes and original techniques passed on generation after generation for centuries and millennia.

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