A crowd at the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy during peak tourism around noon on Friday, June 13, 2025.
“Viva Roma!” said a taxi driver in a story by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in “My Roman Intimacies”. The quote means “Rome is life.”
The morning light casts on the Church of Saint Agnes and the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome, Itlay on Saturday, June 15.
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy during sunrise on Saturday, June 13, 2025.
Rome thrives in the chaos. Ancient Roman ruins are mixed with the nonstop movement of people, vehicles, and public transit. There is a diverse group of people in Rome, not only speaking Italian but also English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, and more. Rome is always awake and never sleeps. There is always noise.
Sounds from Trastevere, a neighborhood outside of Rome, on Friday, June 13, 2025.
Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BC, according to the World History Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia also states that there are several legends on how the name came about, but one very popular one is that two demigod brothers argued over who would rule the city, Romulus and Remus. Remus won and named the city after himself. Romans got a lot of their influence from the Greeks and the Etruscans.
The Roman Colosseum in Rome on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
A site of an ancient Roman ruins where the capital of ancient Rome was, the Forum, in Rome, Italy taken on Thursday, June 5. The Forum held shops, governmental buildings, and bascilicas.
There is an abundance of things in Rome that not even Romans have discovered. A traveler or tourist would not be doing Rome justice if they had not visited the Trevi fountain, the Pantheon, the Tiber, the Colosseum, the Roman Forums, the Bascilicas, and the Vatican.
