Places to visit

1. Places to visit Rome - Pisa Gottinghen Leiden Firenze NewYork - Chicago

2. Rome This is the town where Enrico Fermi was born and spent his youth . Rome's early history is shrouded in legend. According to Roman tradition, the city was founded byRomulus. on 21 April 753 BC. The legendary origin of the city's name is the traditional founder and first ruler. It is said that Romulus and Remus decided to build a city. After an argument, Romulus killed his brother Remus. Then he named it after himself, Rome. More recently, attempts have been made to find a linguistic root for the name Rome. Possibilities include derivation from Greek language meaning bravery, courage;possibly the connection is with a root *rum-, "teat", with possible reference to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately named twins Romulus and Remus. Etruscan gives us the word Rumach, "from Rome", from which Ruma can be extracted. Its further etymology, as with that of most Etruscan words, remains unknown. One of the symbols of Rome is the Colosseum(70–80 AD), the largest amphitheatre ever built in the Roman Empire. Originally capable of seating 60,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial combat. Other symbols of Rome are Castel Sant’Angelo, Fontana Di Trevi, Piazza Navona, Phanteon.

3. Pisa This is the town where Enrico Fermi studied Physics at the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore . Pisa's origins remained unknown for centuries. The city lies at the junction of two rivers, the Arno and the Serchio in the Ligurian Sea forming a laguna area. Archeological remains from the 5th century BC confirmed the existence of a city at the sea, trading with Greeks and Gauls. The presence of an Etruscan necropolis, discovered during excavations in the Arena Garibaldi in 1991, allowed to clarify its Etruscan origins. Ancient Roman authors referred to Pisa as an old city. The maritime role of Pisa should have been already prominent if the ancient authorities ascribed to it the invention of the rostrum: it took advantage of being the only port along the western coast from Genoa (then a small village) to Ostia. Pisa served as a base for Roman naval expeditions against Ligurians, Gauls and Carthaginians. Some places to visit are:Leaning Tower, as well as  its companions the Duomo and Baptistery. Other attractions in Pisa are limited and most visitors find that a few hours exhausts the town's possibilities. One other item that you may find interesting is that Pisa was the birthplace of Galileo Galilei.  One of his earliest discoveries was made while observing a swinging chandelier in the Pisa Cathedral.

4. Gottinghen In this city Fermi decided to work with the great physicist Max Born. The origins of Göttingen lay in a village called Gutingi. The city was founded between 1150 and 1200. In medieval times the city was a member of the Hanseatic League and hence a wealthy town. Today Göttingen is famous for its old university (Georgia Augusta, or "Georg-August-Universität"), which was founded in 1737 and became the most visited university of Europe. Nearly untouched by Allied bombing in World War II (the informal understanding during the war was that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford and the Allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen)the inner city of Göttingen is now an attractive place to live with many shops, cafes and bars. For this reason, many university students live in the inner city and give Göttingen a young face.Some places to visit are:The Göttingen City Museum (Städtisches Museum Göttingen) has permanent and temporary exhibitions of historical and artistic materials.The Ethnographic Collection of the University includes an internationally significant South Seas exhibition (Cook/Forster collection) and mostly 19th-century materials from the Arctic polar region (Baron von Asch collection) as well as major displays on Africa as its highlights.

5. Leiden In 1924 Fermi moved to Leyden (Holland) with a Rockfeller Fellowship to work with the Dutch physicist Paul Ehrenfest. Although it is true that Leiden is an old city, its claimed connection with Roman Lugdunum Batavorum is spurious. Leiden formed on an artificial hill at the confluence of the rivers Oude and Nieuwe Rijn (Old and New Rhine). Some places to visit are: The chief of Leiden's numerous churches are the Hooglandse Kerk (or the church of St Pancras, built in the 15th century )and the Pieterskerk (church of St Peter 1315) with monuments to Scaliger, Boerhaave and other famous scholars.

6. Firenze In 1925 Fermi moved to Florence to work at the university. Florence has had a long and eventful history, being a Roman city, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.Florentines reinvented money in the form of the gold florin - which was the engine that drove Europe out of the "Dark Ages" a term invented by Petrarch, a Florentine. They financed the development of industry all over Europe . They financed the English kings during the Hundred Years War. They financed the papacy, including the construction of Avignon and the reconstruction of Rome when the papacy returned from the "Babylonian captivity".The Medici, one of history's most important noble families revolutionised high culture and the arts.There are a lot of places to visit.Palazzo Vecchio the town hall of Florence is also a major art museum.This massive Romanesque crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany.The Duomo is considered an architectural masterpiece and is a sight to behold.  The cathedral is impressive due to its size and the incredible dimensions of its amazing dome.  If you want to see the original art from the Duomo, it is on display at the Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo. The Palazzo Vecchio:this massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the Piazza della Signoria with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy.

7. NewYork After Fermi received the Nobel Prize , he and his family emigrated to New York. New York City, which is geographically the largest city in the state and most populous in the United States, is known for its history as a gateway for immigration to the United States and its status as a financial, cultural, transportation, and manufacturing center. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, it is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors.The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States to mark the Centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. The idea of giving a colossal representation of republican virtues to a "sister" republic, across the sea, served as a focus for the republican cause against other politicians. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886.There are a lot of places to visit.Central Park is an urban park in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. It is host to approximately twenty-five million visitors each year. Central Park was opened in 1859, completed in 1873 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963. The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate.It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.In 2007, it was ranked number one on the List of America's Favorite Architecture. The Statue of Liberty officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World dedicated on October 28, 1886, is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, given to the United States by the people of France to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution.It represents a woman wearing a stola, a radiant crown and sandals, trampling a broken chain, carrying a torch in her raised right hand and a tabula ansata, where the date of the Declaration of Independence JULY IV MDCCLXXVI is inscribed, in her left arm.

8. Chicago Fermi , after New York , went to the University of Chicago and began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pileChicago Pile-1. During the mid 18th century the area was inhabited by a native American tribe known as the Potawatomis, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples. The name "Chicago" is a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, meaning "wild onion", from the Miami-Illinois language.The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by La Salle himself around 1679 in a memoir written about the time. The city began its step toward national primacy as an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1838, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In February 1856, the Chesbrough plan for the building of Chicago's and the United States' first comprehensive sewerage system was approved by the Common Council.The project raised much of central Chicago to a new grade. Untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, thence into Lake Michigan polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city. The city responded by tunneling two miles (3 km) out into Lake Michigan to newly built water cribs. In 1900, the problem of sewage was largely resolved when Chicago reversed the flow of the river, a process that began with the construction and improvement of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and completed with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal leading to the Illinois River which joins the Mississippi River.