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When in Rome – 2,000 Years of Sightseeing
9:00am | Sunday 25 March 2012| Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
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Rome has been exciting visitors for 2,000 years but tourists from different ages have been drawn by different things. Matthew Sturgis takes a fresh perspective on the ‘Eternal City’ by considering what it was that, for example, drew Renaissance visitors, the Lords on their Grand Tour and the Victorians. Today, few seek out sights such as the Cloaca Maxima, Forum of Trajan, the bones of St Pancras or the reclining Cleopatra, but they were at one time or other among the great attractions of Rome and the world.
Sturgis, the author of a number of books, including biographies of Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Sickert, uses a wealth of sources to reclaim many forgotten aspects of Rome’s history.