Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Rome - The Hub
This was our first visit to Rome and it had a wonderful feeling of being at the hub of the western civilisation, both in terms of the Roman world which we have all heard so much about about since we were at school and were colouring in and cutting out the Centurian..!! And also in terms of being the centre of western religion...with the Vatican and St Peter's Basilica.
We stayed for 3 nights and this gave us chance to walk around parts of the city, and spend a day looking at the Roman relics, including the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Pantheon, and another day looking at the wonderful art of the Vatican museums and St Peter's Basilica.
On our final morning we spent some time at the Trevi fountain and the Spanish steps before lunch and flight home.
So, a great place to visit, and we only saw the obvious highlights - even then you spend most of your time trying to take in the sheer scale of the monuments, I feel each of need at least another visit to really start to appreciate some of the detail. Then there is the secondary sights, which I'm sure are wonderful too.
Full set of photos is at the link below...but if you're planning to go soon, don't look at them - go and see it all afresh for yourself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adeeh2/sets/72157614352537514/
