A week in the Eternal City. Fountains, ancient history, fantastic food, lazy walks through two thousand year old streets. This travelogue contains photography of all the major sites and plenty of observations and tips from the perspective of an actual … Continue reading
Our last romp through Rome, plus Metro tips.
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Rome is a big city, too big to wrap up in just one post. For all the places I’ve shown you, there are dozens of little pictures and tidbits that just didn’t fit. So it’ll take two photo-filled posts to finally get The Eternal City out of my system.
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On our last day in Rome, we had a bit of extra time, and the rain was coming down, so we dove into the closest museum to Termini station, The National Museum of Rome.
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The country is now a Republic, its dysfunctional royal family banished from its borders, but the Victor Emmanuel monument remains, a shining white palacial expanse of marble, horses, more marble, and more horses, capped off by an enormous fat king sitting on an enormous fat horse.
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The Capitoline’s appeal is in its irreverent (perhaps unintentional) exhibits, such as this fine collection of disembodied parts.
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It’s one of the best sights in Rome, and must be seen after dark to be truly appreciated. It’s not by Michelangelo or Bernini, and you won’t find it in most art history textbooks. But it is one of the most memorable sculptures in town.
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A long subway ride from the old city, deep in the Roman suburbs, is a massive but ordinary-looking outcropping of the Vatican known commonly as St. Paul’s Outside the Walls (of the city of Rome). One of the largest churches in the world, it is about as far from any other tourist attraction as you can get and still be roughly inside Rome. On the blustery November afternoon when we took the trip, we thought we’d see the peaceful columns of a stately cathedral, good for a picture or two. We got a full-blown religious experience.
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The rest of Castel Sant’ Angelo, a 2000 year old bridge, and swallows over the Tiber River.
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Europe’s high speed train systems redefine the day trip. Instead of a traveling a dozen miles out of town, we travelled 200 in less than an hour and a half, from a train conveniently located near our hotel to the heart of Florence.
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Sometimes, being the Pope isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sometimes you just can’t get love from The People the way you do from the Big Guy upstairs.
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I’ve been asked how one stays in shape while vacationing in Italy, given the excellent food. Well it’s simple. Italy is, in fact, one gigantic stairmaster.
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After getting lost in the Vatican Museum, our next order of business was to get lost in the world’s biggest Christian church, St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Rome is the city where much of the stuff you read about in myth, legend, and various holy books sits in front of you, mugging for pictures. Walking about town the city you stumble on not small moments in history, but very, very big ones.
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