A horizontal city punctuated by domes and ruins.
Rome is domes, not towers. St Peter’s Basilica is a great hemispherical dome with a lantern, flanked by smaller church domes that pepper the roofscape. The Colosseum, when the angle includes it, is a broken oval drum — a wide, ruined cylinder rather than a skyscraper. You should see almost no glass supertalls. The rhythm is baroque: curves, lanterns, and a heavy horizontal city with sacred silhouettes punching the sky. If the outline is a family of domes plus a squat amphitheatre mass, pick Rome over Paris (one iron tower) or Berlin (a TV needle). This is a city of churches, not a financial cliff.