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Off For a New Adventure

Are you getting tired of Rome! Well I’m off for a new adventure today… heading to Romania first, then over to Serbia to visit Ana and Ivan and see this little darling… born 7/30/15… Then back to Bucharest to pick up a Viking cruise heading to Budapest.  Should be an…

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Piazza della Rotonda

The Piazza della Rotonda is a piazza (city square) in Rome, Italy, on the south side of which is located the Pantheon. The square gets its name from the Pantheon’s informal title as the church of Santa Maria Rotonda. Although the Pantheon has stood from antiquity, the area in front…

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St. Peter’s Square

St. Peter’s Square is a largeish plaza located directly in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave inside Rome. At the center of the square is an Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later,…

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Temple of Romulus

The Temple of Romulus was dedicated by Emperor Maxentius to his son Valerius Romulus, who died in childhood in 309 and was rendered divine honors. The temple now serves as an entrance to the basilica of Santi Cosma e Damiano. It is one of the ancient churches called tituli, of which…

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Triton Fountain

Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini. The fountain was executed in travertine in 1642–43. At its centre rises a larger than lifesize muscular…

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Santi Luca e Martina

Santi Luca e Martina is a church in Rome, Italy, situated between the Roman Forum and the Forum of Caesar and close to the Arch of Septimus Severus. The church was initially dedicated to Saint Martina, martyred in 228 AD during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. In 625 Pope…

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House of Vestals

The House of the Vestal Virgins was the residence of Vestal Virgins, located behind the circular Temple of Vesta at the eastern edge of the Roman Forum, between the Regia and the Palatine Hill. The Atrium Vestae was a three-story 50-room palace in the ancient Roman Forum built around an…

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Arch of Titus

The Arch of Titus is a 1st-century honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum. It was constructed in c. 82 AD by the Roman Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus’ victories, including the…

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Castel San’tAngelo At Night

I really wanted to go out at night and get some night photography.  One of the other guests staying at our hotel was willing to venture out with me one night.  We grabbed the metro passes and headed over toward the Vatican and St. Angelo’s and then walked several of the…

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