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Halloween night on the Tiber River
All those starlings flying round in the evening sky were mighty creepy. We saw them on...
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the keys of heaven
The statue of St. Peter that stands in Piazza San Pietro, to the left of the Basilica. He holds a...
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stop with the cute
A tiny side street off of the Piazza del Duomo in Orvieto. Literally every street in the town looked this adorable and picturesque.
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Piazza del Duomo
Don't you wish you lived in a beautiful crumbling house like this? Yes, you do.
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breather
After reading about the heated divisions between Fascists and Communists in Italy, I worried every...
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Il Duomo di Orvieto
The cathedral in Orvieto took 3 centuries to construct. The cornerstone was laid by Pope Urban IV,...
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Orvieto
We took a little day-trip on Friday to Orvieto, which is located in Umbria in central Italy. The...
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why don't you take a picture?
The dome of St. Peter's, seen through a tiny hole in a wall in the ruins of Emperor Augustus' palace on the Palatino.
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protezione dal sole
A view on the Palatino, looking over the ruins of the palaces of Augustus, Tiberius, and Domitian.
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il stadio
A private arena, thought to have been used by the royal families for small games and events.
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the beating heart of ancient Rome
A view from the second level of the Collosseo. The Arco di Constantino (Arch of Constantine) is on...
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Colosseo
So disappointing. I was expecting an enormous, awe-inspiring structure, but it seemed so... I don't...
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Parco degli acquedotti at sunset
We took a long, long metro ride to Guilo Acricola and walked to Aqueduct Park just as the sun went...
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how high the moon
Aqueduct Park was ever so peaceful (until we were almost run over by some laughing teenagers in a...
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pan-to-mon
The Pantheon was built as a pagan temple dedicated to all gods, and like most in Rome, was taken...
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the warmth of my Roman artichoke hearts
I was so taken with the interaction between the architecture, the light quality, and the blue, blue, Mediterranean sky all over Rome.
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yesssssss my precioussssss
Closeup of one bit of the fountain in Piazza della Rotunda (where the Pantheon is located). I'm glad fish don't actually look like this.
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