Viggen Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Take a cab into Rome from Fiumicino airport and the odds are that the driver will hurtle you up the Via Ostiense, across the Aventine hill, and bring you out in front of the most breathtaking welcome to any European capital. Across the Circus Maximus, the remains of the palace of the ruthless Roman emperor Septimius Severus rear up like a Grand Canyon. At the eastern end, there is a gate in a fence and beyond lies a path winding through an eery, secret corner of the city. "It was closed off in the 1960s," said Giovanna Tedone, shutting the gate behind her. Halfway along the path, which runs beneath the palace ruins, stands a warden's hut smothered with graffiti. Nearby, a broken floodlight lies by a rusting gate. The reason no one below the age of about 60 has seen at close hand Rome's most massively imposing classical remains is that it is too risky to let them in. full article at the Guardian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantagathus Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 No one knows how many visitors there are. Ms Tedone estimates 10-15,000 a day. If that is right and they each paid only a euro, it would raise more than Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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