All roads lead to Rome.
Well, they did 1,900 years ago anyway. By the time you glimpsed the Colosseum, the chariot traffic was dreadful.
On my only visit to the city, I arrived by train. We had been in Pompeii, where a friend was working as an archaeologist; it was a full-on Roman history trip.
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