I can honestly say that we covered the second-greatest span of history today (I don't think you can beat seeing an Etruscan well and a WWII bomb shelter on the same tour, like we did in Orvieto) and certainly some of the most important history.
Rome is, of course, not the safest city in the world, but we traveled there, throughout, and back without any incident, thank God.
When we left in the morning, there was a lovely mist around the Duomo:
The first place we went was the Coliseum. Thanks to this being winter, and the sun rising later than in summer, we got there when the sun was still fairly low in the sky, which is the reason for some of the lovely coloring on the rocks:
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| I assume the cross is in memory of the Christian martyrs who died here |
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| These are pulleys used to raise animals and other items from the lower levels to the battleground |
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| Dr. M. and Dr. F.! |
After the Coliseum, we went to the Forum, which was the center of Roman pagan worship:
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| Photobomb! |
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| The Palatine |
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| An original bronze door |
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| The temple of Antonius and Faustina, later turned into a Christian church |
On the way out of the Forum, we passed the memorial to Victor Emanuel, who unified Italy into a single country:
After the Forum was lunch, and then the Pantheon (which, by the way, is a pretty impressive building):
After the Pantheon, we went to the Keats Shelley House. I don't have any pictures of the inside, but I have some pictures of the area around it:
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| From the top of the Spanish Stairs - I'm pretty sure that's St. Peter's Basilica |
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