ROME

The capital city left us a good feeling; three days are few for Rome, but we have used them very intensive.
The same day that we arrived, at the beginning we were going to Aldo house, our friend of Couchsurfing, but we couldn’t resist the temptation of walk through Rome, and crossing the park of Oppio we had in front of us the view of the Coliseum, the mythic place where the gladiators fought; but now there is no sand in the centre, in its place it is seen the underground galleries from where they conduct the wild beast and brought them up with a pulley system.


What we saw during the 3 days was the most popular places, there were no more time…The sacred way connects the Coliseum with the roman Foro, where there are plenty ruins of roman architecture.


Following is the Campidoglio and Venecia square; there are ruins in the entire city we can spend weeks here. Other places that we saw were the Popolo square, the Spanish square, the Trevi Fountain and the amazing Pantheon.


Crossing the river beside the justice palace, there is the castle S. Angelo converted in an art museum.


Returning to the most interesting places, near by the Coliseum, there is the Massimo Circus; in which there is nothing now, just the memory of the racing of the carriage pulling by horses.
Of course in Rome there are dozens and dozens of churches, even the small ones are beautiful inside.
We went for a walk to the Vatican City, with the impressive Basilica of San Pedro, and where the security is maximum.


But the best of the Vatican City are the museums…that’s incredible what they have there. Halls full of sculpture, the Egyptian museum, Etruscan… We pass through halls and halls full of paints showing passage of the history or inventions of the author. A famous painter who made a lot of works here, was Rafaello. And finally we arrive to the expected Sistine Chapel with the great work of Michelangelo. In the picture it is seen a detail of the ceiling; we had to “steal” the picture, for that the bad quality…