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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Rome, part 2

We had planned to go to the Vatican the next day, but one of the metro branches was shut down, so we changed our plans. We spent the whole day just walking around with a tourist map, trying to see all the important things downtown. I think we would have needed many weeks to see it all...

I was so excited to show Caryl the Trevi Fountain, one of my favorite things from my last trip to Italy. I was so disappointed when we arrived and saw this:



As we soon learned, it seems like most of Rome is in scaffolds. Caryl and I joked every morning about what scaffolds we would see next.

Cool church:







Piazza Venezia:

The Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) also known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II):





16th century church of Santa Maria di Loreto:







Nearby there are more Roman ruins, the Torre delle Milize:



Awesome church we saw while walking around:



The streets of Rome:





Caryl taking advantage of the free potable water throughout the city. We read these are connected to the now repaired ancient Roman aqueduct system:



Rome at night:





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