Rome, Italy

Today was the ototypal instance we didn’t onsequence up to an signal clock. After six days of go go go, we necessary whatever instance to recuperate. I woke up at 11 and Sam didn’t get up until after 12. We washed whatever of our clothes in the sink and then went discover to journeying whatever churches. All the main tourist spots are closed. We ate pastries for breakfast that were really good. I guess it wasn’t really breakfast because it was 3pm.

The prototypal faith we went to was Santa Maria Maggiore, digit of Rome’s oldest and best preserved (432A.D.) I was blown away by the churches in town and now that I saw whatever in Rome, Florence’s are nothing compared to them. Santa Maria Maggiore is actually part of the Vatican and rattling richly decorated. It has bonny mosaics and pieces of the manger. (I don’t conceive it.)

St. saint in Chains has Michelangelo’s Moses. He is so beautiful. You look at him and can’t conceive someone engraved him discover of marble. The faith also has the chains that held Saint Peter. (I don’t conceive that digit either.)

San Clemente showed us the layers of Rome. A 12th century basilica sits atop of a fourth-century faith basilica, which sits atop of a second-century Mithraic Temple and whatever modify earlier Roman buildings. You enter the faith and then go downstairs to the earlier faith which still has whatever of the frescos. Then you go down more stairs and you are in the Mithraic Temple. It was really incredible.

San Giovanni in Laterano was the prototypal faith faith built in 318 A.D. It is still a functioning faith and accumulation was going on while we were there. Most of how it is decorated is from 1600. It does have metallic columns from the Temple of Jupiter, pagan Rome’s holiest blot from 50 A.D. The faith is meet massive.

There was a market meet outside San Givanni in Laterano, so we strolled through it and bought sandwiches and cannolis. I sure love cannolis. Then we took the railway back to our hotel so we could get our coats. We didn’t bring them because they were drying after terminal night’s soke in the rain. After we got our coats we took the railway to the land Steps that have been there for 300 years. We then walked to the Trevi Fountain. It is really bonny and rattling crowded. A bloom vender pushed us into letting him take our picture, with my camera, and then we ended up paying him 3 E for a rose. We strolled back to Piazza Navona and had whatever roasted chestnuts on the way. On our artefact back to the hotel we looked at Trajan’s Column. It is 140 feet gangly and is decorated with a spiral relief of 2,500 figures. They tell the story of Trajan’s conquest of Dacia.