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| Urvi and I inside the Colosseum! |
Trip: Tour the Classical Sites
Distance: 7 miles
Sights: Spanish Steps, Pantheon, Piazza Novona, Forum, Colosseum, Palatine Hill
Pivo Index: 1
The Vatican
has never been my big goal in seeing Rome.
Instead it’s Ancient Rome I’ve always wanted to see. So with only one full day in the Eternal
City, we mapped out a plan to see the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Forum and the
granddaddy of them all – The Colosseum!
If I wrote
out a list of the Top 10 man-made structures I wanted to visit when I was
younger it would have been:
1.
Neuschwanstein
2.
Parthenon
3.
Colosseum
4.
Chichen Itza
5.
Pyramids of Giza
6.
Hagia Sofia
7.
Taj Mahal
8.
CN Tower
9.
Panama Canal
10.
Kremlin
So, we left
our little B&B in the area of the Vatican and took the Metro into the
city. Getting off at Spagna Station, we
got turned around and went the wrong way.
We wondered by the Villa Borghese and down streets lined with 18th
and 19th century buildings.
Nuncio had described Rome as “A museum without a roof.”
By the time
I realized where we were – I realized we were right around the corner from the
Spanish Steps. Like forcing everyone to
go see Argos on our trip to Mycene/Nemea – BONUS SIGHT!!!
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| Urvi on the Spanish Steps |
Next stop
was the Pantheon. I cannot even begin to
describe. I can try with this video, but
you don’t even know.
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| Inside the Pantheon |
Then we
moved on to the center of Ancient Rome.
These sights were so perfect. In a hundred pictures I’ve seen these
things. Discovery Channel shows and
Gibbon describe the building of them. It
is not until you see the Forum or gasp at Constantine’s Arch that you really
understand
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| Il Victorino |
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| Trajan's Column |
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| Forum |
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| I came; I saw, I got stared at by middle aged Germans |
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| I got nothing... |
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| Yep... |
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| Constantine's Arch |
That was
just the first half day in Italy! A
million adventures await.
Tino pai,
Jesse…
