Rome - a city of art . This statement strongly support anyone ever set foot on his land saturated with culture eternal . Like a magnet, it attracted geniuses brush and marble for nearly 29 centuries of history - from the ancient builders of the Roman Forum and facilities The Colosseum to contemporary artists whose exhibitions with an enviable regularity are arranged in the National Art Museum of the 21st century - the Roman land and today does not grow scanty at talents . Yes, and not only about painting and sculpture need to be said when it comes to the art of Pu and - a smear of harmony is felt in everything here: from the masters of Italian opera tunes wafting from the open windows in the old quarters of the city to a perfect circle pizza randomly, but picturesquely scattered on it slices of different eatables .
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Number of art galleries and art halls in the Fine Arts museum of Rome exceeds all acceptable for average world capitals frame . get a permanent registration here canvas numerous unique, valuable artistically and financially . lion of dollars is concentrated on the territory of the Pontifical mini-state of the Vatican - what are at least the murals of St. Peter's Cathedral and the center of attraction of subtle natures from around the world - Sistine Chapel with frescoes by Michelangelo . To this it is worth adding the richest collection of paintings by Raphael and Perugino, da Vinci, Titian, Boticelli, Veronese and many other famous Italians . Thanks to the strategic position of Rome in the center of European trade routes, many pictures of foreign artists have settled here: The Gallery of the St. Luke Academy, for example, lays an impressive number of works of medieval Flemish and French masters, and the National Gallery of Modern Art proudly exhibits paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne and Klimt . Well, you can trace the picturesque history of the city itself in watercolors and canvases stored in the Museum of Rome in Trastevere .
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Marble masterpieces of Rome are no less numerous than the creations of the painters: here there is almost the most part of the world's beautiful stock, carved in stone . Among the alphabet sculptures - Michelangelo's "Pieta", decorating the interiors of St. Peter's Cathedral . A significant part of the collection of Roman sculptures is in the National Roman Museum: these are wonderful examples of antique sculpture . In addition, you can enjoy the perfect harmony of marble forms in the Vatican Museums and in the Borghese Gallery . The basilicas, cathedrals and churches of Rome also have numerous statues: they mainly decorate the facades and depict evangelical characters . We advise you to pay attention to the tombs known artists of the church, art and science, who have found the last rest in the Roman churches - among the tombstones there are real masterpieces . And finally, do not miss the opportunity to see the famous bronze Capitol wolf feeding the legendary twins Romulus and Remus and the sculpture " A boy pulling out a splinter "; both are in the Capitoline Museum .
... and the art of living!
break from the never-ending catharsis can immerse yourself in the most important of the arts - the art of living in Italian . This means spending the hot midday hours in the provincial trattorias for a huge plate of pasta and the evening - overlooking the expanse of the Mediterranean, to discuss on the terrace with a neighbor extravagant prank of the Prime Minister and quench his thirst from public fountains with drinking water, at the first blows of a cool wind throw a fur coat on a thin strapped dress and meticulously consider with binoculars enorov on the stage of the Roman opera - in a word, to laugh, to dream and to create a fruitful soil of the Eternal City .