Two cities, a thousand of similarities…
Two opposite continents but two cities that look alike.
Washington D.C. and Rome, who would have thought it?
Despite their distant history the two cities have a lot in common.
Starting with their architecture and urbanistic traits.
Rome is a thousand-year-old city and was born in 753 BC, precisely on April 21. At that time Washington D.C. still did not exist or rather, America had not yet been discovered.
So what are these similarities between the two cities?
We can start from the National Mall which is clearly a copy of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
We can see how both the shape and the presence of the obelisk are very similar. But also the style and even the importance of the two monuments, even though they have different functions. Even the frescoes and decorations are similar. In fact, it was a Roman painter who embellished the Capitol with his frescoes: it was Constantine Brumidi, who also left some of his “traces” in Rome.
And then? What other similarities are there?
The Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art are clearly two American Pantheons.
Even the little river that flows near the Congress was inspired by the river of Rome: the Tiber. In fact, the canal is called Tiber Creek Washington City Canal.
The two cities undoubtedly have very different cultures, mentalities and origins, but there is something that links them, despite the miles that divide them.
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