Labor protest march |
The Coliseum |
Jim and the Coliseum |
Seriously old stones! |
Jim and Coliseum |
Windows of the Coliseum |
Our first pizza in Rome: arugula and salmon! |
One of the Roman Fori |
Column in a Roman Forum |
Monument of Victor Emmanual II |
Statue on Victor Emmanual monument |
Victor Emmanual monument |
Horse atop Victor Emmanual monument |
Interesting ceiling! |
View from elevator on Victor Emmanual monument |
Cynthia being a powerful female charioteer |
in the Santa Maria in Aracoeli |
The happy couple in front of the Monumento Victor Emmanual II |
A Roman forum |
Roman forum ruins |
Cynthia points out the strange hill from the Hotel Eden terrace |
Piazza di Spagna |
Jim at Cafe Grecco, via Condotti |
Fresh fruit in Rome! |
Throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain (so we'll come back to Rome!) |
Drinking from a Roman fountain |
Jim and the Trevi Fountain |
The happy couple at the Trevi Fountain |
Nice photo! |
Time for gelato |
Cyn in columns of the Pantheon |
The ceiling of the Pantheon |
The Pantheon |
Church spire |
"the best coffee in Rome," Cafe St. Eustachio |
Cyn in the Cafe St. Eustachio |
Typical Roman view |
Cyn in Piazza Navona |
Rio de la Plate statue, Piazza Navona |
Nice Bernini statue! |
More pizza in Rome |
A lovely quiet courtyard for our picnic pizza |
Campo dei Fiori |
A nice photo for Jessica! |
Unfortunate collection of plastic on the Tiber River (don't ever buy plastic water bottles!) |
Isola Tibertina |
Jim trying to pet the local kitties |
Secret walkway up the Aventina hill |
View over Rome and San Pietro Basilica |
The happy couple on the Aventine Hill |
View of Victor Emmanual II monument |
Church on Aventine Hill |
Sweet little statue |
Cyn looks through "the keyhole" |
Carla and Jim chit chat |
Carla and Cyn chit chat |
Stained glass windows in church on Aventine |
Church details, Aventine hill |
Carla and Cyn, friends! |
Juliana and Luca |
Our room in Carla's apartment |
Sharing a prosecco |
Teresa and Carla |
Teresa and Cyn, hard at work |
Jim in Carla's apartment |
The mysterious Carla! |
Egyptian panel in the Vatican museum |
Hall of statues, Vatican |
Jim in the Vatican muesum |
Ceiling in the Vatican |
Cyn in the Hall of Maps, Vatican |
Jim, entering the Sistine Chapel |
Having a break from our Vatican tour |
Spiral staircase, Vatican |
San Pietro Basilica |
The amazing Bernini columns |
Jim and San Pietro Basilica |
The Pieta, by Michelangelo |
The cupola of San Pietro Basilica |
Bernini columns over St. Peter's crypt |
Cool marble statue in San Pietro Basilica |
Cyn being dramatic again |
Ceiling detail, San Pietro Basilica |
Nice angel |
Jim, enthralled by religious art ... |
Jim enjoying the cupids in the cupola |
Detail, cupola of San Pietro Basilica |
Jim climbs the cupola |
View from the cupola of San Pietro Basilica |
A nice quiet lunch near San Pietro Basilica |
Cyn and favorite statue atop Castel San Angelo |
Jim and Fontana de Tartarughe (turtles!) |
Close up of Fontana de Tartarughe |
Basilica of San Paolo |
The happy couple in the courtyard of San Paolo Basilica |
Close up of door, San Paolo Basilica |
Ceiling, San Paolo Basilica |
So few tourists at San Paolo Basilica! |
Columns, San Paolo Basilica |
Incredible stone windows, San Paolo Basilica |
Carla and Cyn, San Paolo Basilica |
Ancient column, San Paolo Basilica |
Malachite altar! San Paolo Basilica |
Detail of altar, San Paolo Basilica |
Interesting satyr, altat in San Paolo Basilica |
Awaiting confessioners ... |
Metal statue in honor of veterans |
Veteran's sculpture |
Carla and Jim in front of Museo Montemartini |
Museo Montemartini: juxtaposition of ancient marble and 1930's machinery |
Statues and hydroelectric plant machinery |
Statue and machinery |
Carla behind immense turbines |
Looking down over the machinery of power station, Museo Montemartini |
Cool machinery |
Carla and Jim enjoy view of power station machinery |
Nice black statue, black machinery |
Cows and machines! |
Roman torso |
Cyn being a statue again |
Nice butts! |
The hand of a statue |
Athena in the Museo Montimartini |
The pyramid at the San Paolo gate of Rome |
In the "non-Catholic" cemetary, Rome |
Lovely sentiment, tomb in non-Catholic cemetary |
The weeping angel ... WOW |
Lunch in testaccio neighborhood, Jim and Carla |
Cyn buys a pair of Italian boots! |
Jim in trastevere neighborhood |
Typical Roman view |