Aurelian Wall Rome

After more than a year and a half of saving and planning and almost twenty-four hours of traveling, we flew into Rome on Sunday, October 21st. Well...technically we flew into Fiumicino and took a short train ride into Rome. But the point is that we arrived! Siamo arrivati!

The Leonardo Express dumped us out into the sprawling Roma Termini …

... :  it's just as good as everyone says it is.  Enjoying our cones, we strolled back through the Porta San Giovanni, under the Aurelian Wall, and alighted a red line train to the hotel.  We were in bed and fast asleep by 7:30 p.m., and not a ...

... the other is round, and other changes were made to make them appear very similar. On the outer side of the piazza is the Aurelian Wall and the Porta del Popolo (in ancient Roman times it was known as the Porta Flaminia). The Popolo comes from the church ...

... about. It's the tomb of a senior Roman magistrate who died in 12 BC, and is a huge (36m tall) white edifice set into the Aurelian Wall near Porta San Paolo. We found a train that seemed to be going the right way (there aren't a lot of signs, in Italian ...

... trip and book well in advance. We turned right onto Via Pinciana, and walked down to Porta Pinciana - one of the gates in the Aurelian Wall. It was getting dark, so we flagged a taxi on Via Veneto, and happily paid the 6 euro it cost to get home ...

... emperor Claudius, and is formed by arches through two aqueducts, the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus. The gate was made part of the Aurelian Wall in 271 by the emperor Aurelian. Close by the gate, just outside the wall, is the unusual Tomb of the Baker, ...

... was station in Africa during his career so that could have influenced his taste.  The pyramid was later built into the Aurelian wall, the reason it survived, and was restored in the 1600s.  Today is backs up onto the Protestant Cemetery but it ...

... took almost a year to build and is smaller but proportionate to the pyramids in Egypt. It was incorporated into the Aurelian wall built to defend Rome from attack. We are also standing outside Porta San Paolo, one of the 18 original gates of the city. ...

... the way in, but got bored looking (but saw another cat!!), so decided to head toward the Porta San Sabastiano (gate in the Aurelian wall). We finally found a place to buy a bus map this morning and thought we were headed down a street that would have a ...