Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Our Colosseum Tour
Our 3 1/2 hour tour of the Colosseum, Palantine, and Forum
Rome, Italy
We were freezing but the tour was great. Way more information than my brain could handle.
Colosseum...what an impressive structure in it's day. Imagine with beautiful sculptures in each of the openings.
Palantine
The Forum
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Roman Holiday
Our daughter visited during the New Year holiday, so we kicked the new year off with a trip to Rome. What an amazing time we had during our four day trip. Today I'm going to feature Day One of the trip as Rome is so chocked full of history and photographic opportunities that it'd be impossible to display in one post. Hope you enjoy and come back to see the rest of our adventure.
I believe here we were looking across the Roman Forum, which is a rectangular plaza that was the city center of Rome. I'll have more photos of the ruins on another post.
View from our flat of Saint Peters Basilica in the Vatican City
Castle Saint Angelo
Court of Justice
Yep...that's him...smack dab in the middle!
Temple of Hercules Victor...very, very old! Dating back to 2nd century BC
Location of the Mouth of Truth...Don't be caught lying!
The Altare della Patria is a monument built in honor of Victor Emmanuel who was the first king of unified Italy.
The Colosseum is seen on the left side of the photo.
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