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The Fontana del Pantheon. I don't think I need to translate that... 🇮🇹
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The Pantheon was built between 113 and 125 AD, so it's been around a while, seen some things... It also stars "the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome" which is quite impressive, especially in person!
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Not far away is the Pantheon! There is a line, but it is by far the fastest moving queue we've been in.
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We do manage to find the elevator that goes to the top. It's small, only taking around 10 people at a time, but the queue is shortish as we line up. The views are great!
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We visit upon and inside the Altare della Patria, or the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, or, as the locals unkindly put it, The Wedding Cake, The False Teeth, or The Typewriter. It is apparently not well-liked, having been built on part of the demolished "Capitoline Hill and a Medieval neighborhood." We see the exhibition first, although really we're looking for the means to get to the viewing platform on top. Signage is not apparent!
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We are in the (Piazza del) Campidoglio, a "hilltop square designed by Michelangelo" of whom you may have heard.
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Having come around the south-west edge of the Palatino and up Via Monte Tarpeo, we get this free bird's-eye view of the Foro Romano! Not bad.
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We've decided to walk to some destinations by different paths than we did the previous night. We rediscover the gelateria that fed and watered us on our epic journey from the airport the first night. The church is the Basilica di Santa Anastasia al Palatino, and the ruins are some tucked away behind the Palatino in the "area of the Lupercal"... where "Lupe" refers to wolf, and the legend of Romulus and Remus.
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It's a pair of legionaries, we'd better not catch their attention, visiting as we are from a penal colony.
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It is morning, here is a picture of the courtyard (? Is it a courtyard? It's not shared property, I couldn't find a better word.) in the middle of the block on which our hotel is found. Someone has a big fluffy cat and it is the master of this domain.
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It's late now, and still our first day in Rome, we have walked a long way! On our way back we find more gelati to try - it's becoming an evening tradition.
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Trajan's Column (or Colonna Traiana) and the Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi). There fountain is very popular, with a bit of a police presence as well. Poor Trajan doesn't get as much attention.
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