There are many legends and curious stories about Rome, a city that is ancient and at the same time layered and ambivalent in its essence, interwoven into sacred and profane, joyful and sad, with chaos and architectural perfection, with ruins and modern technologies.
One of the Roman streets that most embodies this city's sumptuous and at the same time mysterious soul is via Veneto. Staying in a room rental in the area of Via Veneto you can easily understand the essence of Rome and the harmony that binds all its contradictions.
Via Veneto is the symbol of Rome's "Dolce Vita", the cheerful, carefree, rich and dreamy Rome that we see in the famous film by Federico Fellini, which was shot on this street.
The numerous upscale restaurants, shops of high fashion and the luxury and glossy atmosphere of the most fashionable street of Rome conceal some of the most intriguing and macabre representations of spirituality and worship of the dead in the Catholic tradition.
Under the church of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, which is located right on Via Veneto, there is a cemetery made and decorated with the bones of the skeletons of about four thousand Capuchin friars, who wanted to remind us in a disturbing and bizarre way, that life is short and that we should live it wisely. Entering the cemetery you will read clearly their message: "We were what you are, and what we are you will be."
Don't be afraid though: Via Veneto, like the rest of Rome is full of beauty and art, even for those who have less gruesome taste: the same church of the Capuchins gathers many works of art of inestimable value, such as paintings by Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Giovanni Lanfranco, Domenichino and Mario Balassi, all painters and masters of the seventeenth century.
