FOR MY TWO TREASURES

This is a simple "video post" about the origin of your genes that even if not fully Roman do contain part of the origins of the way the "occidental world" is today, with its culture, science and arts, Rome in fact was the capital of the ancient world, controlled with its laws and army power several countries both in the Mediterranean area and beyond, even today - because it hosts the Vatican empire - it influences through it the entire world, in other words it's been like the USA are today.....even more.

This below is about the main road (Appia) that went through Rome and that's very close to where our best friends in Rome (Gianni) used to live, I can't tell you how many times I walked - at every time of the day - on this road, thinking to be a legionary of the ancient Rome times.

So while I want to be sure that you recognize yourselves as part of what created the world as it is today, I post here a couple of youtubes (both in english and Italian, that you are very familiar with) that describe what's left today of the biggest and most influential empire the world has ever seen, among these videos I chose a couple about my most preferred monument in Rome, the Pantheon, not only because when I was a teenager I used to play soccer with friends in the square in front of it, but very much too because it represent the architectural ability of those people 2.000 years ago, not yet completely surpassed.

In Italian too:

I make to you both here in public the promise to go with you both to Rome for a tour of its ancient roads and monuments and in addition to go to Pompeii, under the vesuvius volcano that erupted 2.000+ years ago and still preserves not only the town itself but its inhabitants too.

Pompeii