Vacation in Italy

These were all taken in an area considered "Old Rome". Sights date back to the time of Christ and earlier. It is truly full of awesome sights. Our first exposure to Italy started out there, at the Spanish Steps, and continued the next day after we visited Vatican City.

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Trajan's Column (very detailed carvings on its surface (113 A.D.)

Kathy, sitting at the fountain at the base of the Spanish Steps. How young does she look here?!?!

The Coliseum.

Inside the Coliseum, you can see the excavated passageways where prisoners and lions were kept and where platforms were hoisted up to ground level, allowing people and animals to enter the arena.

Another view, where you can see some of the remaining stone bleachers.

A cool angle from the outside.

More ruins(the Roman Forum) with Piazza Venezia in the background.

Piazza Venezia (see details at the right)

Trevi fountain.

Kathy at the Trevi fountain

The Pantheon -- not to be confused with the Parthenon, which is in Greece -- built around 128 A.D. Unfortunately, we got there too late in the day to get inside...thanks to Air France and 5.5 hours of waiting for our luggage.

The Piazza Novana, taken from our dinner table at a terriffic outside restaurant.

The Spanish Steps is a place where lots of people, tourists, and local students, go in the evening to sit and...well...watch each other, I suppose.

Kathy and me in the Coliseum.

Kathy and me at the Piazza Venezia. The Victor Emmanuel Monument is actually fairly new -- inaugurated in 1911 for the first king of unified Italy. It also has an eternal flame and is a memorial for "the unknown soldier".

Me and Kathy at the Trevi fountain. A wonderful fountain in a quaint square and a nice picture of us. (Unfortunately the person who took this picture inadvertently opened the camera, letting in light and causing the orange stripe across the picture, but at least we noticed before the film fell out and ruined the whole roll.)