Whew! Roma will wear you out. But this is the place if you want ruins.
I booked a lovely little apartment for us, just north of the Colosseum. We took a day trip to the Vatican, another touring the Forum, Palatine Hill and the Colosseum (there’s a lot of detours in there, always one more thing to swing by). Met up with Moira and Jim again for dinner and tartufo (remind me to tell you about tartufo sometime ... mama mia). My favorite part of Rome was the sculpture. I have fallen hard for Bernini. To walk around any one of his pieces ... a fountain in a piazza, in a church or in the Borghese Gallery ... it will send you.
our Roma hood...
Via de’ Ciancaleoni...
...#11
Alla Scalinata
Ciancaleoni
art books above the window.
Colosseum at night
Victor Emmanuel Monument
Castel Sant’Angelo
Tiber River...
Smart Cars and Andy Warhol
Trevi Fountain...
ya had to be there. Really.
Trajan’s
Column, Market and Forum...
Roman Forum...
Arch of Titus
walk like a Caesar
where Julius Caesar burned
House of the Vestal Virgins
Basilica of Constantine
Arch of Septimus Severus
Curia (Senate House)
inside the Curia...
Julie proclaims something
looking up to Capitol Hill
up on Capitol Hill
view of Forum from Capitol Hill
piazza on Capitol Hill...
Sophia Loren’s rooftop apartment?
believe!
Palatine Hill...
Colosseum...
Spanish Steps...
gladiator poser
more wedding photos,
more luck
Keats died in this apartment...
now it’s a museum
Santa Maria della Vittoria...
Bernini’s Teresa in Ecstasy
doesn’t do it the least bit of justice
SM della Vittoria altar
