Rome is a marvelous city in which eras layer on top of each other like a "historical lasagna". It is worth exploring it not horizontally, as we are used to when traveling, collecting places and museums. The Romans run to work past ancient columns stuck in the walls of houses, sit in parks on ancient sarcophagi instead of benches, build new houses on ancient foundations and decorate the city squares with fragments of marble statues. Everyone is so used to it that they don't even notice. Time has left so much "legacy" here that it would be unfair to the city not to take it into account. All of these are doors to storerooms full of unexpected worlds. Almost like a closet to Narnia. To get there, all you have to do is be as curious as children. To notice an ancient inscription on a wall or a nearly obliterated mural on the front of a house. Not parade squares and fountains, but often something unnoticeable can tell a very interesting story. But only to those who are ready to hear it. - Is it true that statues talk in Rome? - How to visit reclusive nuns? - Where were poisons brewed for alchemists and mixtures for the Pope? - Where did honest courtesans absolve their sins? - How to find masterpieces by Caravaggio and Raphael without buying a ticket to a museum? Answers to all these and many other unexpected questions you will find in the book you are holding in your hands!