VENETO street:This is American Rome, just as the Piazza di Spagna was English Rome a hundred years ago. Everything here is a little richer and more expensive than elsewhere: we are in the dollar area. Here you see the “milords” of the new age, the film stars and the celluloid caesars, and those executives whose names occupy such a tedious crescendo of type before a film begins. Sitting in Via Veneto today among the film actors and actresses, the business magnates, the officials of Economic Cooperation, the visiting senators and congressmen, the members of the United States Information Service, The United States Chambers of Commerce for Italy, and various other organizations, with a palatial American Embassy on the corner, and the new stands overflowing with American newspapers and magazines. There is something quite fascinating about the Americanism of this part of Rome. It is, in its way, imperial. Civis Americanus sum… Sitting under a blue sun umbrella in the Via Veneto, you can think how many Romes there are. There is ecclesiastical Rome; diplomatic Rome; archaelogical Rome; artistic Rome; business Rome; the tourists’ Rome; and the everyday Rome in which the majority of the people earn a living. Even the stranger’s Rome splits itself into a series of different Romes.