Walking down the coble-stoned streets along side the ancient ruins with your eyes widened absorbing every intricate detail was an amazing experience. Rome the eternal city with it’s rich history and ancient ruins provided a days worth of entertainment with the group doing shopping, dinning in the local road side restaurants and exploring a small proportion of what Rome as to offer.
A small group of five participated in a tour of the Vatican City, which provided the fantastic bonus of jumping the queue and having access to the Sistine Chapel among with other fascinating parts. While the others enjoyed visiting the museum with the highlights being a golden sarcophagus of a pope, a pope's skull and instruments of torture. The 500-year-old tapestries, the paintings painted by Michelangelo and the statues were everywhere made you think about the value of the city.
With the tour of the Vatican City finished we met with the other remaining members of the group to leave for lunch and a brief amount of shopping in Piazza Novara a small square which contains an interesting toy shop, a statue which apparently looks like Fred, break dancers and street artists who drew multiple member of our group as cartoons.
From the Piazza Novara we walked to the Pantheon which was bold in it’s design compared to the delicate previous churches of the day. Inside of the Pantheon we debunked the myth that the rain doesn’t fall through the open hole in the roof but instead the rain falls through the roof and drains through fourteen different drainage holes in the floor.
Some members of our touring party were feeling exhausted so they returned to the hotel by taxi while the others explored Rome by Twilight. We went home by the Trevi fountain and the Republica. Rome’s atmosphere and landscape at nighttime is festive and beautiful.
A small group of five participated in a tour of the Vatican City, which provided the fantastic bonus of jumping the queue and having access to the Sistine Chapel among with other fascinating parts. While the others enjoyed visiting the museum with the highlights being a golden sarcophagus of a pope, a pope's skull and instruments of torture. The 500-year-old tapestries, the paintings painted by Michelangelo and the statues were everywhere made you think about the value of the city.
With the tour of the Vatican City finished we met with the other remaining members of the group to leave for lunch and a brief amount of shopping in Piazza Novara a small square which contains an interesting toy shop, a statue which apparently looks like Fred, break dancers and street artists who drew multiple member of our group as cartoons.
From the Piazza Novara we walked to the Pantheon which was bold in it’s design compared to the delicate previous churches of the day. Inside of the Pantheon we debunked the myth that the rain doesn’t fall through the open hole in the roof but instead the rain falls through the roof and drains through fourteen different drainage holes in the floor.
Some members of our touring party were feeling exhausted so they returned to the hotel by taxi while the others explored Rome by Twilight. We went home by the Trevi fountain and the Republica. Rome’s atmosphere and landscape at nighttime is festive and beautiful.
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