The appeal of the "ancient ruins" to understand the greatness of the past when Rome was the centre of the World. From here came out our finest traditions starting with religious tolerance, rules of law, market economy, representative government, art and architecture.
From the very beginning, when Romulus and his farmer friends set up the village on top of the Palatine hill in the VIII century b.C. until the fall of the Empire in the V century AD, when those travellers who visited Rome stood astonished in front of the impressive ruins featuring the oversized dimensions of the Imperial architectures once boasting the opulence and the power gained by Rome within the 3rd century AD