Friends, Romans, Countrymen! I have not come to day to praise Caesar, but to bury him. Veni, Vidi, Vici! When in Rome...
Enough! We had a great time! We toured until we dropped and then walked another kilometer or two! But we saw more than I can even recount. (Talk to my mom, Sue. She has an hour by hour account--even where we ate and what we ordered.)
Here are the basics:
Places: Rome & Florence
Sites: Colosseum/Constantine's Arch, Roman Forum,Palatine Hill, St. Peter's Square, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Trajan's Column, Bocca della Verita (Mouth of Truth), Ponte Vecchio, Pallazo Vecchio, Piazzala Michaelangelo, ___'s? Catacombs
Museums: Vatican Museum (w/Sistine Chapel), Uffizi Gallery (with Bottecelli's Primavera and Birth of Venus, Roman National Museum, and the Accademy (Michaelangelo's David).
We also happened to see the Pope in his Popemobile, but we were actually just out to get gelatto and decided to swing by St. Peter's so we didn't have the camera. :(
More to come!
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