Most people visit Rome and see ruins. Stone. Columns. Broken pieces.
They take photos and move on. What they don’t see is what those places used to be—color on the walls, water moving through the floors, details built so precisely they still work.
This is a short list of things most people walk past. The ones that change how you see the entire city.
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