Tag: Rome
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Rome Forum
It doesn’t take long to realise that Rome is built on Rome, which is built on Rome. Anyone who has read Terry Pratchett’s Ankh Morpork books will understand the connotations. You can’t dig anywhere without finding more ruins… forget an underground system or basement parking! Having decided they would keep the ruins and celebrate their…
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Rome Gasometer
Yes, a strange thing to feature in a hotel window view… but somehow it’s not only not ugly, it’s quite picturesque in an industrial sort of way. I had a manager at the CEGB who said that electricity pylons were architectural sculptures and people should pay to view them. Maybe I see where he was…