Rome and Milan, Italy

Today we went exclusive the Pantheon. That is something I have desired to do since I look AP Art History 13 years ago. It was shapely two millennia ago and served as a model for St. Peter’s Dome and the Duome’s Dome in Florence. It is a catholic church today that holds regular mass. Raphael, the artist, is buried there.

We took a taxi to Palatine Hill. While we were in the taxi Sam realized that the 40 Euro he had in his incurvature was today missing. We figure he was garner pocketed in the metro or in the Pantheon. It prefabricated him pretty grumpy for a patch that the pickpockets got him. Palatine Hill is a filled with ruins from emperor’s Palaces. It also has the direct line to intend your combo ticket for the Colosseum, romish Forum, and Palatine Hill. Thanks for the tip Rick Steves. This saved us hours of inactivity outside the Colosseum. The ruins of Palatine Hill were engrossing but they were the least engrossing of the threesome sites.

The romish Forum was ancient Rome’s important conservativist with ruins and grand arches. We listened to an frequence tour patch travel around and we learn a lot from it. The arches are magnificent and what remains of the temples are pretty amazing too.

Nothing in leaders tops the Colosseum. The filler of it is beyond belief. The ancient stadium held 50,000 people. What they did there was beyond belief too. For me it was a lowercase melancholy being there knowing how many people and animals died for the recreation of the hard Romans. The engineering genuinely was marvelous. We also had a great view of the Arch of Constantine and the Temple of Urania and leaders from the balcony of the Colosseum.

We had an extra hour so we visited the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli which used to be the great central hall of the Baths of Diocletian. It was shapely around 300 A.D. and what is left of the original design, the floor, columns, and some arches is beautiful. We also stopped at Santa Maria della Vittoria which displays St. Teresa in Ecstasy by Bernini. I am so glad that his isn’t in a museum somewhere. It is so such more coercive in the setting that designer intended, with actual rays of light coming from about the sculpture. (This was shown on Angles and Demons for those of you who saw it.)

After retrieving our bags from the hotel we got on the train to Milan at 5pm. It module take threesome hours putting us there at 8pm. I am rattling missing my kids and I ease have another hebdomad until I module see them. We are having a wonderful instance but not having internet in leaders prefabricated me feel like I am so very farther absent from them. I look forward to being able to email them when we intend to Milan and hopefully I module be effort an update from Deb, Sam’s mom, or Alycia.