Glorious Rome: Its Art and Architecture

From the ancient monuments to the Trevi Fountain and Piazza del Popolo, the Eternal City has been in constant evolution. Its political buildings, public squares, fountains and churches have inspired every other city in the Western World. We will don imaginary “magic galoshes” to walk its streets and peel back the layers to see how a Temple of Mithra became a Christian church, a place for horse racing turned into a public square, an Egyptian obelisk was “baptized” to become a beacon of a faith imported into Rome from the eastern Mediterranean.