Today, we caught the train from Civitavecchia to Rome and then a 'Hop On Hop Off' bus. This time we stopped off at the Colosseum, The Pantheon and Trevi Fountain.
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| Colosseum - probably as you never get to see it |
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| Trevi Fountain |
Lot of walking today which took its toll on my knee. We took in a beautiful lunch at a small ristorante in the streets around the Trevi.
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| Pizza and Lasagna |
They say that "Rome wasn't built in a day" - you certainly can't see it all in a day either!! So it was great that we got a second bite at it to follow our first visit a couple of weeks ago.
The Colosseum is an amazing engineering feat to behold. There is quite a lot of restoration work going on at the moment so it was difficult get an unhindered view of the structure without including tons of scaffolding and stuff.
The Pantheon is a popular attraction also with thousands of people crawling in and around the place today and, I guess, everyday. This treasured building was transformed from a pagan temple to a Christian church in 608 AD - the basilica of S. Maria ad Martyres. It is regarded as the best preserved of the ancient buildings around today.
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| This dude was trying hard to get off but it wasn't working |
Catch ya tomorrow!!!
