May 2015 - Rome, Italy
The remnants of the Empire: The forum (featuring many arches and monuments), the Palatine hill, and the Appian Way. I was particularly excited to see Trajan's column, which celebrates his victory over the Dacians at Sarmizegetusa, the ruins of which we visited a few years ago. Having seen the city ruined by Trajan, it was exciting to see the side of the victors. Not pictured here, off of the Appian Way we made a visit to the early Christian catacombs, which was a really neat experience.
The remnants of the Empire: The forum (featuring many arches and monuments), the Palatine hill, and the Appian Way. I was particularly excited to see Trajan's column, which celebrates his victory over the Dacians at Sarmizegetusa, the ruins of which we visited a few years ago. Having seen the city ruined by Trajan, it was exciting to see the side of the victors. Not pictured here, off of the Appian Way we made a visit to the early Christian catacombs, which was a really neat experience.
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| Palatine hill and the forum | The Arch of Septimius Severus, celebrating his amazing achievement of winning a war in the middle east | Us and the arch |
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| Extensive ruins of the palaces | ||
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| Up in the palace ruins | The Arch of Constantine | |
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| The Arch of Constantine | The top of the front of the arch | Detail on the arch |
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| The Arch of Titus | Detail on the arch, the spoils of Jerusalem | The Renaissance city rising above the forum |
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| The Temple of Romulus | The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina | |
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| Walking through the forum | ||
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| Us! | Overlooking the forum | |
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| Looking from Trajan's Forum to the Vatican | Trajan's column, celebrating his victory over the Dacians at Sarmizegetusa | Attacking the walls in the classic tortoise formation |
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| Calvary charge | Soldiers working hard | Walking along the former Appian Way |
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| The ruins of the Circus of Maxentius | The area of the stadium | |
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| The tomb of Caecilia Metella, from the 1st century BC | The Capo di Bove baths | Once great mosaics |
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| Walking along an original Roman part of the road | Probably the weirdest looking bird I've ever seen in the wild, a hoopoe | Hoopoe |
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| Relaxing outside the Christian catacombs |