Saturday, July 7, 2012

Labels: fear of flying / italy / pumping

If you made it this long, then you deserve some type of reward. I feel like for making it this long in writing all of these posts that I also deserve some type of reward. I wish I could ship some gelato from Italy for me as my prize for completing all of this!!! After dinner on our last day in Rome we wanted to try to squeeze in a couple more sights. It was dark at this point but some of the outdoor sites we read were actually better at night. We hopped on the metro and headed to The Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps were built between 1723-1726 and the fountain Barcaccia ("bad boat") was built in 1626-1629 by Bernini with his son Gianlorenzo. They were actually designed and funded by the French and include 12 flights of curving stairs. I enjoyed the rules for the Steps: The steps! Crowded even at 10:00 at night! Fountain at the bottom We were EXHAUSTED by this point and literally didn't have the energy to go all the way up. We wan...

Italy Day 7: Pantheon

Friday, July 6, 2012

Labels: italy

We hopped off the bus where the random teenager kid told us to (thankfully he was honest!). We walked down a little bit and then saw the MASSIVE building to the right of us...we made it to the Pantheon! I couldn't even begin to fit the whole thing in a picture (this is the side of the building). This poem was outside the door of the entrance, love it! I'm going to straight up copy word for word what my Frommer's guide says about the Pantheon (Btw I should probably give the guide a true credit, I've used it in almost every post for info on the places we visited and we used it CONSTANTLY on our trip, the book we used was Frommer's Italy Day by Day Guide. Highly recommend it!!!): "Pantheon is hands down the most masterful architectural feat of ancient Rome. It is almost perfectly preserved. The porch consists of 16 monolithic Egyptian granite columns, weighing 82 tons each. Inside the 44m wide (143 feet) dome, poured in concrete in the 120s AD and ne...

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