Odd boat shaped fountain in Piazza di Spagna,. In th background you can see the steps to the church of Trinita die Monti. |
 Colonna dell’Immacolota. A statue of the Virgin Mary on the top of a Roman column. |
 Italian police, every vigilant - never miss any passing Miss. |
 Egyptian obelisk in Piazza Populu. This used to be in the Circus Maximus but Pope Sixtus V thought it would be better here |
 My hotel room. |
 The famous Trevi Fountian. It is a traddition to throw coins into the fountain to ensure a return to Rome. |
 The Arch of Constantine, who was the emporer who converted to Christianity. Constantine was proclaimed emporer by his troops in Eboracum (York) in England. |
 The Arch of Vespasian. Emporer Vespasian was a former govenor of Britain and was responsible for the building of the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colluseum. |
 Detail of a chariot carving on the Arch of Vespasian |
 View of the Colloseum arena.. Part of the floor has been reconstructed and you can see that there were rooms below ground. Gladiators and animals were kept here waiting for their time when they would come to the surface through trap doors. |
 Here I am in the Collosuem. |
 Some ruins in the forum, colonade for the Temple of Venus & Rome. |
 ‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’ The site of the cremation of Julius Caesar. |
 The famous Trajan’s column. There used to be a stature of Trajan on the top, but some pope thought it would look better with a statue of St. Peter up there. |
 The carvings arond the column tell the story of the invasion of Dacia in 101 A.D. The column used to be painted so it was a lot easier to see in the old days. |
 Torre Argentina is the site of the assasination of Julius Ceasar and is now home to many a cat, including at least one Orange & White man. |
 Looking up at the dome of the Pantheon. This is one ancient Roman building that has survived intact, mainly because it was converted into a churth. This is the largest dome in the world and was built by Emporer Hadrian - he did not just do walls. |
 Here I am in Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City. |
 The Fountain in Piazza Navone. There are four figures on the fountain which represent the four continents (they did not know about Antarctica then). |
 View over Rome. The large white building is the monument to King Victor Emanuel II, who was the first king of the unified Italy. |
 The dome of Saint Peter’s from the garden of the embassy of the Knights of Malta. |
 Statue of Guiseppie Garibaldi who unified Italy in the 1860’s |