Rome, standing at the bus stop waiting for an invisible bus, the question is: “Why romans don’t have 5, 6 or 7 metro lines like the other capitals of the world?”
The answer is: “Because Rome hides a second ancient city under the ground level!”
(Under Venezia Square)At Every step you take, on the ground level, remember that you are walking on a history of thousands & thousands years old!
In this post I want to show you what is hidden behind the curtain in Piazza Venezia ( excavation for the implementation of the line metro C, our 3rd line! YUPPIES!!!!!)
Archaeologists have found, one above the other, the different layers of the ancient Via Flaminia, from the ancient roman layers up to the most recent. This ancient route should have started from the current Fori Imperiali, ran around the Campidoglio and then pointed to Campo Marzio cutting, exactly in the half, the current Piazza Venezia. Opened in 223 A. C. by Caio Flaminio became one of the most important ancient Rome way but it was much used always during the Bizantine time and during the Middle Age, then restored during the Renaissance and used up to the 1800: these are the different layers that are returning back to the light under Piazza Venezia.
Look at what is coming back to light, right now………
(Furnace for the production of glass and fragments)
(Glasses of the Medioeval age)
Look at what is coming back to light, right now………
(Furnace for the production of glass and fragments)
(Glasses of the Medioeval age)
(Metallurgical plant)
(Metallurgical fragments)
(Houses of the Medioeval ages)
(Chafing dish, IX century founded in a home)
(Typical steet of the Medioeval age)
(Medioeval furnace)
(Renaissance age)
(Metallurgical fragments)
(Houses of the Medioeval ages)
(Chafing dish, IX century founded in a home) 
(Typical steet of the Medioeval age) 
(Medioeval furnace)
(Renaissance age)
