This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 201.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns and villages, mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of Bella Italia.

Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes,

history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta.

If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there, you've come to the right

place.

Benvenuti. Welcome, welcome everyone. How are you all doing? Today I thought we would head back to the Eternal

City to discover why you've never really done Rome, as many people say. Rome is one of the

world's greatest cities thanks to being the centre and beating heart of its enormous empire that

stretched over five million square kilometres from Hadrian's wall in England to the north

to the banks of the Euphrates in Syria in the south. Thanks to this domination, very sophisticated

civilisation and rich history throughout the centuries, Rome has countless treasures to explore.

But unfortunately, most visitors just tap into a few of the famous ones before

ticking them off their list and declaring that they've done Rome. Joining me today is

local guide, an archaeologist Margarita Caponi, who has an unrelenting passion for Rome

and its many layers of history. Margarita and I were destined to meet as we share

this passion and also mutual friends, but somehow it probably took a little longer than it should have.

Anyway, I kept bumping into her on a recent trip to Rome and made sure she promised to join me

here on the pod. So let's meet Margarita and get started on this episode that is dedicated to

all you history nerds like me who are obsessed with delving deeper into the Eternal City.

Benvenu to Margarita. Welcome on to the Untold Italy podcast. Thank you very much. Thank you, Cathy,

for having me for the invitation.

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