There are many pictures, so hang in there. TJ, or my personal trip photographer, took over 600 pictures over three days, and it took forever to pick just a few for this blog. We had the funniest Italian guy for a guide, who was ridiculously dramatic and surprising heterosexual at the same time, but also had the thickest accent so it was a little hard to catch all of the history. I will start with the church that had many little treasures in it. The biggy was the relics of the chains of St. Peter. Catholics, you know this one...Peter was chained and while being heavily guarded, he escaped with the aid of an angel. The other lovely treasure would be the giant sculpture created by the great Michael Angelo. It was a beautiful church, and my second favorite that we saw on the trip.
Here are a couple pictures...the first is of the giant creation by Michael Angelo...
And here are the chains, and they are heavily guarded.
My ultimate favorite of the entire trip were the ruins. It is amazing how they are all over the city and the city is built around them. You can be walking down the street and see a piece of old ruin in an odd place. Some of the groupings were gated off, but it is very cool to see how the city respects and preserves them.I particularly like this photo as you can see the old in front and then the new along the street behind. These ruins are a part of the ancient market place.
This ridiculousness was not a product of Caesar or ancient times, rather Musselini. The Italians almost seem embarrassed about its extravagance. It is made completely of marble and is now a museum called the Vittorio. It also includes the tomb of the unknown soldier. Those pictures will come in a few days.
Here it is from the front, and yes it is gigantic.
Behind the Vittorio is the capital area with a couple of museums. It is funny, all of Romes many rulers built all of their palaces next to each other. I love all the statues of each time period. Here I am in front of the capital area.
Okay, the colosseum is freakishly impressive. I know you can google it and get the idea, but it is truly amazing and you need to see it in person. It was built around 78 AD, and here is the exterior.
From the inside you can see the amount of bricks it takes to even build an archway.
Part of the arena is missing its top level due to age and an earthquake that happened years ago. Some has been reconstructed, but the area we took the next picture in was original.
From one of the archways you can see the ruins of the Tribunal of Justice and the Vittorio behind it.
I love these ruins of the most original city. You cannot go in there for safety reasons, but you can just see the age and the wonder of it all, these are my favorite ruins and there are more pictures later of the back side.
Right as you come upon the Colesseum, you reach the Forum and it is extremely ornate and in amazing shape for how old it is.
I loe this photo of the inside of the Colesseum. It once held over 50,000 people, the Emporer sat just to the left of the main archway near the stage. The floor of the area is missing as you can see into the depths where labrynths existed holding a number of things. The floor was originally wood and sand.
And the outside...
Another view.
These are just a few of the many that TJ took of Imperial Rome. There will be more on his Flickr site by weeks end. The pictures do nothing for what the city actually is, I encourage everyone to go! Tomorrow is Bernini's Eternal Rome. This would be the romantic sculpture and landmark side of Rome. Until then, Auf Wiedersehen!
This ridiculousness was not a product of Caesar or ancient times, rather Musselini. The Italians almost seem embarrassed about its extravagance. It is made completely of marble and is now a museum called the Vittorio. It also includes the tomb of the unknown soldier. Those pictures will come in a few days.
Here it is from the front, and yes it is gigantic.
Behind the Vittorio is the capital area with a couple of museums. It is funny, all of Romes many rulers built all of their palaces next to each other. I love all the statues of each time period. Here I am in front of the capital area.
Okay, the colosseum is freakishly impressive. I know you can google it and get the idea, but it is truly amazing and you need to see it in person. It was built around 78 AD, and here is the exterior.
From the inside you can see the amount of bricks it takes to even build an archway.
Part of the arena is missing its top level due to age and an earthquake that happened years ago. Some has been reconstructed, but the area we took the next picture in was original.
From one of the archways you can see the ruins of the Tribunal of Justice and the Vittorio behind it.
I love these ruins of the most original city. You cannot go in there for safety reasons, but you can just see the age and the wonder of it all, these are my favorite ruins and there are more pictures later of the back side.
Right as you come upon the Colesseum, you reach the Forum and it is extremely ornate and in amazing shape for how old it is.
I loe this photo of the inside of the Colesseum. It once held over 50,000 people, the Emporer sat just to the left of the main archway near the stage. The floor of the area is missing as you can see into the depths where labrynths existed holding a number of things. The floor was originally wood and sand.
And the outside...
Another view.
These are just a few of the many that TJ took of Imperial Rome. There will be more on his Flickr site by weeks end. The pictures do nothing for what the city actually is, I encourage everyone to go! Tomorrow is Bernini's Eternal Rome. This would be the romantic sculpture and landmark side of Rome. Until then, Auf Wiedersehen!
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