books.google.co.uk - Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries that Rome is rightly called the 'eternal city'. Rome is eternal above all because it was always young, always 'in its prime'. Here the buildings that defined the West appeared over more than 2000 years, here the history of European architecture...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Architecture_of_Rome.html?id=Se1BbQ99KGUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Architecture of Rome