First Sentence

"Proverbs about Rome-"When there, do as the Romans do", "It has seven hills", "All roads lead there", "It wasn't built in a day"-show how how it has come to represent the whole range of urban experience a particular population with peculiar customs, a varied, exhilarating, and exhausting topography, a focus for the energies of an extensive hinterland, a historical fabric of buildings and space."