Our first night - Piazza Navona
It was a perfect night to eat outside - guitar player serenading us
Famous Spanish steps - Trinita dei Monti church at the top. This is the widest stairway in Europe
Villa Borghese - Park in the northern part of Rome
National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II is a monument built to honor Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy. Locals hate it and refer to it as "the wedding cake"
Pantheon - means "to every god", built 126AD as a temple to all gods
The oculus - 2,000 years later it's still the worlds largest unreinforced concrete dome.
Trevi Fountain - legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome...we all threw one in
Ancient ruins
Look familiar? This is what the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is modeled after
Colosseum - contruction started in 72 ADcan hold 50,000 people
Pretty amazing inside....
Vatican Museum - St Peter's Basilica famouns
The Vatican - had a great walking tour
Inside Vatican Museum
Inside St Peter's Basilica - largest interior of any Christian church in the world.
Visitors who come to the Basilica traditionally touch and kiss Saint Peter's foot, it is literally worn thin. In the Middle Ages pilgrims who reached Rome, touched and kissed the foot of the statue and prayed to St. Peter asking that he be merciful and open the gates of heaven for them if they died during the pilgrimage. Dad didn't kiss it, but rubbed it!
Outside in St Peter's square
