Roman Architecture Quotes

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

Let Rome’s art tell the empire’s story.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Eternal Rome

Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.