Rome!

The Fountain of Trevi!

As I said in my last post we are in Rome, and when in Rome do what the Romans do. Which is, drum roll......Go take pictures with famous things! We just did that. The first thing on our list was The Colosseum which of course was covered in scaffolding on one side and the line to get in practically wrapped around the entire coliseum. By the Coliseum we saw The palace of Victor Emmanuel which was built by the first king of united Italy in 1820.  We also saw the Fountain of Trevi which had about 1000 people crowding around it. Parallel to the Fountain we saw the Pantheon (not to be confused with the League of Legends Champion).  

The Colosseum!

St. Peter's

St. Peter's

The next day we got up bright and early to go to the Vatican Museum but my mother and I got lost and went to St. Peter`s Cathedral thinking that we could buy tickets for the Vatican Museum. Inside the cathedral it`s a huge room about the size of an airplane hanger with a massive dome to top it off. Under St. Peter`s the old popes have been buried, the oldest one which dates back to 86 A.D. When we came out of the cathedral we walked to the entrance to the Vatican Museum but there was a line that wrapped around the block that looked about 2 hours long. Since waiting in the line for 2 hours wasn't an option we walked to the castle where the pope would have gone when he was being attacked by someone trying to claim the title `pope` for himself.  On our way out of Rome we stopped at one of the many catacombs of Rome. The catacombs which consisted of 5 levels and 20 square km was where the Christians buried their dead. The information I got from the broken English of our guide was that the catacombs were active from the 3rd century until 8th century then they were forgotten for almost 1000 years. When they were dug out archeologists found about 6 million bones that mostly were from children, but for some reason our guide didn't tell us why.  107 steps later we were on the surface again and on our way to Florence where Michelangelo lived and where many of his famous work is.

Sigh why every time