From our bus trip through Rome, here is the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, designed by Michangelo Buonarotti in 1562.
The Coliseum in the daylight, many people around of course!
Circus Maximus where Ben Hur raced in his chariot is now a public park. Not much grass right now, just lots of dust. It measured 621 m (2,037 ft) in length and 118 m (387 ft) in width, and could accommodate about 150,000 spectators.
Palatine Hill, overlooking Circus Maximus.
Some believe people lived here in 1000 BC. According to legend this is the cave where the city's founders Romulus and Remus were discovered by the she-wolf Lupa and raised by Faustulus and his wife Acca.
Some people call it torta nuziale the wedding cake, others call it macchina per scrivere the typewriter...because of its huge whiteness!
It's Il Vittoriano - the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II. It's also known as the Altare della Patria (Altar of the Motherland) — is a monument built to honor Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy.
The neo-classic structure in white marble occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill completed in 1935.
We took the pictures from the bus but obviously, you
could walk all over and explore this area.
We are going to have to come back and check out Rome. So much we didn't get to see! You definitely need more than a couple days.
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