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The Pantheon


Facing the Piazza della Rotonda

More pics of The Pantheon and the Piazza della Rotonda

Inside the Pantheon

Trevi Fountain

The Colosseum

More Colosseum pics

The Spanish Steps

More pics of and view from Spanish Steps

View from the Spanish Steps

Campo de' Fiori

"Cardinals and noblemen used to rub shoulders with fishmongers and foreigners in the piazza's market, making it one of the liveliest areas of medieval and Renaissance Rome. Today's market retains much of the traditional lively atmosphere."

"In the center of the square is a statue of Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake for heresy here in 1600."

Lively tourist business

More Campo de' Fiori pics

Piazza Navona

The foundations of this elongated oval were the ruined grandstands of the vast Stadium of Domitian (forerunner of the Colosseum)

The Baroque style of Bernini and Borromini dominates

More Piazza Navona pics

Rome has some of the lovliest fountains in the world. Many are drinking fountains while some cascade from the sides of buildings. All these hundreds of fountains have potable water, even today. (note; I did regularly drink the tap water, but didn't brave to drink from any fountains) These fountains are a testament to magnificent Roman engineering of aqueducts in the 2nd

Century BC; built to bring in water from surrounding hills, some over 50 miles away. - sounds like I'll need another post for that!

Fontana del Moro (foreground) - Bernini's 1653 remodel of the sea god.