We have visited Rome twice in February, including this time, and the weather has been wonderful each time.
Today it was in the 50's and mostly sunny. We have no specific plans for our stay here, which we're finding to be the way to go. It's much more relaxing not having to be somewhere at a specific time for a tour or museum reservations. Although today we did have a mission - to go to Gusto - a little kitchen type shop to look for gifts and then have lunch in the attached restaurant, which we accomplished. Lunch was a light and yummy steak tenderloin salad that we enjoyed outside.
Secretly, my plan was to do a little more shopping in the area around via Condotti. Instead, we walked up the Spanish Steps and found our way to the beautiful Borghese gardens. It was a perfect Valentine's Day!
Here are some shots of the day.
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A very crowded Piazza Navona
(notice the nun snapping pics of the jazz band) |
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St. Agnes in Agone
1600's by Barromini |
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Restoration on the Four Rivers Fountain
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi |
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| Armed guard at one of the State buildings |
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| Sunny shot of the Pantheon |
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Our Favorite Piazza - Piazza di Sant' Ignazio
The buildings are curved around the piazza |
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| Sharply dressed guards at one of the Parliament buildings |
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Colonna di Marco Aurelio - Built in A.D. 180
The carvings are of war scenes of this emperor's victories |
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| Yawn...another old Parliament building |
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| Dining al fresca at Gusto's |
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| Lunch! |
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| One of the many fountains of Rome |
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| Fountain Detail |
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Mausoleum of Augustus from 28 B.C.
This has been under construction forever! |
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Spanish Steps - Perfect place to enjoy the sun!
in the background - Trinita dei Monti - 16th century church |
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| Trying to look like the rest of the Italians... |
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The park is massive with lots of great trails
running throughout |
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| One of three Secret Gardens attached to the Villa Borghese |
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Riding the little #116 electric bus home
This guy brought his own seat! |
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| On the way home we took a peak at this beautiful courtyard |
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| Amazing! |
I've been playing around with the format of this blog. I can't seem to line up two pictures side by side. I also thought the last Rome background made it hard to read the text so I enlarged the text and changed the picture. Not sure if that helped or not but I'll keep playing with it as I have time.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's adventures. You won't believe it!
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