Could say Rome, but this would be a lie. Can no longer walk down from my apartment during ferragosto and hear the silence - for there is silence no longer in Trastevere- the heart of Rome

Now, you must pay and wait before you walk into the Pantheon and dwell on Raphael and the Renaissance

and, they tell me the Romans have made an exodus, Airbnb all over…every time I go I say no no no and know but on my last trip, in April, they are right…..such is state of the eternal city

Perhaps Venice is the one city that remains….La Serenissima