For over 3,000 years, Rome has been home to popes and poets, emperors, fascists and fashionistas, and is one of the world's most visited cities. Readers will welcome the compact edition of this Then and Now title. Incredible then-and-now photographs illustrate Rome's great works of architecture and historic sites and compare, for example, the spectacle of hundreds of horse-drawn carriages in the Piazza St. Peter in 1870 to today's open piazza.… (more)