RHYMES FOR ROME

"How did they build the Pantheon? How much does a ticket to the Coliseum cost? Do they really drink wine with honey in the taverns?" These and hundreds of other questions crowd the mind of young Rubio, who wakes up from a nap in his car to find himself catapulted into ancient Rome in the house of the EmperorAugustus.
In the company of candid and at times bizarre characters, he tours the sites that symbolize the Capital, discovering the face of a surprising city that mixes marble and misery, brilliant colors and sinister shadows. Rubio listens, asks, observes with curiosity the monuments, enchanted by the whirlwind of voices that rise from the lanes into the squares and then loose themselves in the tumultuous melee of the Forum. This book, woven through with rhymes, dialogues and original illustrations is the complete account of his extraordinary journey.