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.

Stratford-Upon-Avon, England

I finally made it to Stafford-upon-Avon! All of the photos taken on iPhone 16 Pro Max as my Nikon battery died after our visit to the butter...