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ON THE SIDE OF A HILL IN THE HEART OF THOSE WHO KNOWS – Welcome to Rome, stopped at the rooftop terrace of the Pincio

When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. Welcome to the Pincio, most beautiful gardens of Rome. They are located on a square, the side of a hill full of multicolored vegetation. An architect – Valadier – had designed those gardens with grand boulevards and oaks, palms and pines. That place, over the years, has become a meeting place for the Romans, and for all foreigners who were visiting that city. They all stopped at the “Casina Valadier”, to spend a pleasant time, but also to eat. In the early years of the twentieth century, you could look at that restaurant some famous person of the time, like Richard Strauss or Gandhi. http://www.rome.info/

When you get in the Pincio Gardens, do not forget to go to the square Napoleon, because it is from the famous terrace you can admire the most celebrated views of Rome. A camera, or colors and a sketchbook, you choose how not to lose the Monte Mario and the Janiculum hill, but you absolutely just arrive before sunset, to add to your travel emotions, even the Roman one. Walking inside the park, there is also an obelisk in the Egyptian style, what a Roman emperor had built over the grave of a favorite. You want to know what time it is? Move on the way to the obelisk side because it is in this place that there is a curious water clock, the distant memory in 1889, comes from the Paris Universal Exhibition.