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It was common knowledge that Rome had the noisiest nights of any city in the world, but one needed a quiet year abroad to appreciate this fully.
Except for the two celebrated avenues intersecting at the Forum-- the Via Sacra and the Via Novo--which were grandly laid with smooth blocks of Numidian marble, all the principal thoroughfares were paved with cobblestones ranging in size from plums to pomegranates.