May 2015 - Rome, Italy
Our trip to Rome included (here) the Pantheon, and some of the broader sites around Rome: Trevi fountain, Spanish steps, Piazza Navona, Largo di Torre Argentina, and the Altare della Patria. The Pantheon was brilliant - though I would have loved much more to have seen it before it was vandalized by the church.
Our trip to Rome included (here) the Pantheon, and some of the broader sites around Rome: Trevi fountain, Spanish steps, Piazza Navona, Largo di Torre Argentina, and the Altare della Patria. The Pantheon was brilliant - though I would have loved much more to have seen it before it was vandalized by the church.
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| The Pantheon | The face, once adorned with statues | Inside the Pantheon |
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| The Pantheon's incredible dome | The icon above the altar is from 609 A.D., a gift from Byzantine emperor. | The most beautiful marble floors I've ever seen |
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| Paintings along the walls | The oculus casting its eye | |
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| The backside of the Pantheon | ||
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| A 3000 year-old obelisk in front of the Pantheon, a beauty that badly clashes with the pope's stamp on the bottom and the cross on the top | The Trevi fountain, under some serious renovation | The Spanish steps, very popular |
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| The view from the top of the Spanish steps | Piazza Navona | The Fountain of the Four Rivers, featuring sculpture representations of the four great rivers of the world, and an Egyptian obelisk |
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| The four rivers | Largo di Torre Argentina, near the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated | Part of the old city wall, right around the corner from where we stayed |
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| Randomly around town, a beautiful mosaic with the great Christmas inscription "Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax ominibus bone voluntatis" | I was very surprised to see a parrot flying around Rome | Overlooking Rome |
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| The Altare della Patria (the wedding cake) | Up on the Altare della Patria | |
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| The view of the forum from the first level of the Altare della Patria | Trajan's market, a mall from 2000 years ago | The colosseum |
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| Can't look more Italy than that | Taking a chance to sit in the shade for a few minutes | The sun setting on the wedding cake |