Borghese Gardens Rome

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This weekend was pretty eventful for me. On Friday, I went to Villa Borghese, which is a 3 mile long park near the Spanish Steps. I went there with some friends and we had a picnic and did homework in the sunny 60 degree weather. I did not explore all of the park, but I am definitively going back there some time this …

Buon giorno (good morning) from Italy! For our first week break most of our group decided to spend our time exploring different cities in Italy. I, along with my roommate Stephanie, decided to spend 3 days in Rome, 2 days in Verona, and take a day trip out to Venice. Since this was such a long trip I've decided to split my trip into different blog …

I arrived at Fuimicino airport, Rome in the early afternoon from Siena to meet Keegan and Jarad. They had just arrived from almost 30 hours in transit and they looked awful. Jarad smelt like a dirty sock and Keegan could barely string a sentence together. Nonetheless, it was really good to meet up with them.

We made our way into the city …

After our whirlwind walking extravaganzas of the past few days in Rome, we had all decided that our last full day should be more relaxed: see the last few noteworthy piazzas, take a scenic route to get there, and shop around said piazzas. We woke up (quite a lot later than the crack of dawn for the vatican) and had one last delicious cappuccino/ …

... again.   Took the metro to Spagna and then rode a couple of really long elevators to almost the entry of the Borghese gardens.. The park is HUGE and contains many sculptures and fountains throughout..   With our Roma passes, entry to 2 ...

... and they cheered and waved banners as He greeted them in their respective languages. We wrapped our last full day in Rome with a visit to the Borghese Gardens where we rented a 4 person pedal carriage and pretended to be on the Amazing Race passing other ...

... her hands and arms around or rolling her eyes. After pizza at a nearby pizzeria we took the metro to the Borghese Gardens. Rome doesn't seem to have very many parks and we found ourselves strolling amongst hordes of Italian families out for a day in ...

... . The noise and congestion of the city was wearing me out, so I spent the majority of my afternoon and evening in the Borghese Gardens. Also I had a reservation to see what ended up being the greatest museum I have ever seen. The Borghese Gallery.   ...

... hungry we ate every morsel, and it helped that it was absolutely mouthwateringly good :-) Then we walked up the Via Veneto and into the Borghese Gardens to work some of the pizza off. Trish was keen to find the lake featured on all the maps, but despite ...

... 40 Euros. Not valuing the catacombs that much, we stopped in a bookstore, reserved Harry Potter, and walked up Via Venito to the Borghese Gardens. They were quite nice, with lots of pine needles and statuary and a temple in a lake. Then we walked to the ...

... ones hardly anybody sees (like the Protestant Cemetery), and our time is limited, so this time my plan is to stay in the Borghese Gardens and see the Etruscan Museum and the Gallery Borghese. You have to book in advance for the latter, since it's small ...

... way there we passed another piazza, this one had a nice fountain in the middle with lion statues all over. So the Borghese Gardens were really peaceful...until the gypsies came and wouldn't leave us alone....doing their usual thing of selling roses, ...

... . The rest of our time in Rome was pretty relaxed and involved a lot of walking and eating and strolling in the Villa Borghese gardens and around the Spanish Steps. Blair of course did throw a coin in the Trevi fountain to ensure his return to Rome, ...

... museum also had the original she wolf with Romulus and Remus or Lupa which is symbolic of the founding of Rome. This week we will be meeting at the Borghese Gardens. I don't know how beautiful they will be at this point in Winter, but I look forward to ...