I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Augustus We romped around Rome for the last few days of our tour. We had reached the heart of the Roman empire, a city of eminent emperors and striking structures, where the arteries of imperial roads joined. The city has layers of occupation from numerous eras from before the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to modern times. Caesar Augustus transformed the Republic into the Empire. After years of civil wars in Rome, he ended the squabbles and ushered in an era devoid […]