When in Rome..

Tuesday
-early morning flight to Rome

-lunch with restaurant owner who looks like James Bond
-Vatican museum/Sistine Chapel
*good culmination of everything we've seen, God is sovereign, faithful and He has the victory in the end-last judgment)

Wednesday

-Colosseum
-Titus' Arch
-Roman Forum, SPQR by the Senat and the people
-Trevi Fountain
-Pantheon
-Trajan's column
-crazy street performers
-Spanish steps and obelisk
-Metro

Thursday
-started with 9 on the Michele tour and ended with 3
-Piazza de Popolo (originally built for pope)
(concert being set up, churches, obelisk)
-climb to Pincio (gardens and amazing view
-followed Tevere River down to the Bridge of Angels
(nice cool, shady walk under the trees, smart cars parked the wrong way)
-explored all over Castel St. Angelo, built over Hadrian's crypt
-LOTS of steps
-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John bastions
-parapet walk, christian symbols
-Room of the Urns (ashes of Hadrian's wife)
-long curved ramp, like passageway for funeral procession
-Chamber of Justice, treasury
-gorgeous Sistine-chapel like frescoes everywhere covering the walls
-more incredible view from the top!!

*walked to Piazza Navona: Neptune fountain, obelisk, church, narrow streets, sat and ate lunch

*Campo de Fiori: remains of farmer's market
*followed river past several bridges; crossed to Isola and back
*Found St. Maria in Cosmedin: crypt of Hadrian and Mouth of Truth
*Circus Maximus, Arch of Constantine, Colosseum, Roman Forum
Vittoria Emmanuel Monument
Via de Corso
*back to Piazza de Popolo
back to hotel Leonardo da Vinci
went back to the concert in the Piazza, popular Italian singers: Tezeki Festival