Our tour guide for the day, Terry Giansanti with Hands On Travel (HOT) showing us around the Forum.
Viewing the Colosseum
Us in front of the ColosseumWe got up, rode the metro and met Terry, our tour guide for the rest of the day. We walked to a church called St. Clementine. It has three levels. The bottom is a house where people used to live. Romans built a church on top of it and then they built yet another church on top of that! We walked to the Colosseum. In its heyday, it could fit 50,000 people in there and that's where the gladiators fought. Cool! We got hungry, ate pizza for lunch at a cool place. Why was it cool? We could tell them exactly how much pizza we wanted and paid by the gram! Cheap and cool! We walked and saw the first school for the Deaf in Italy. It was an oral school. Cool. We also saw a cat sanctuary (where old ruins are) for homeless cats. Cool! We then went to visit the Forum. an ancient Roman meeting place. We went to St. Peter's Basilica and saw La Pieta, the only sculpture that Michelangelo himself signed. Then, we walked to eat out at Piazza Navona , whoo!! We then walked to a place with delicious ice cream, much better than 31 Flavors! We gorged ourselves and walked to the Trevi fountain. Also, we will go to the metro soon and pack and get ready to fly back to America tomorrow.
America!!!!!!
Notes: We also learned that the Colosseum was also used for other performances, saw an ancient mall which had many floors, and saw City Hall among other things today. What a busy day!
