OK, it’s our last day to do the walk,bus,train, metro thing into Rome and we were off. What do most people think of when they think of Rome? The Colosseum is my guess. On our way there we passed the Vittorio Emanuele Monument. It was built in the late 1800’s to honor the first king of Italy. We also passed a headless Busker:
The Colosseum was started during the Vespasian empire around A.D. 72 and inaugurated in the Titus Empire in A.D. 80. So off we go, into the land of Gladiators:
Off to the Pantheon. This is one of only a few Ancient Roman buildings still intact. It was built in 27 B.C. but reconstructed by Hadrian in the early 2nd century A.D. It is a perfect sphere resting in a cylinder. The walls are 25 feet thick and the bronze entry doors weight over 20 tons each (that is about the size of Jay Sea Dee). Today it is a Catholic church but until the 5th century it was a Pagan temple dedicated to Roman gods.
We’re done sightseeing in Rome, but there is one more thing I have to do…Death by Chocolate Gelato!!!
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