Capitoline Museum (Museo Capitolino) Rome

Piazza del Campidoglio 1, Rome , Lazio, Italy - Phone: 06 82059127

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    Rome Nov 10, 2009

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    When in Rome...

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    Ciao from Italy!

    Chris and I are finishing our 3rd day in Rome, and so far, it is VERY HOT! We arrived on Monday morning. We couldn't sleep on the plane because the PA system kept dinging at us nonstop, throughout the flight (Like those Southwest commercials - *DING!*). So having been up for 34 hours straight, we were pretty tired, but …

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    The Wait, The Line, The Museums!

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    Today was the Vatican City, which was huge, though not quite as large as the queue to get into it! The morning started off badly, the bus company had the wrong time booked for us and so it ended up being over an hour late. We made it eventually though and the Vatican was well worth the wait. Everthing in it was amazing! Especially the Sistine …

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    ... . You really begin to understand the grandeur of an empire that still affects our lives today.   Next I visited the Capitoline Museums. A collection of Art worth seeing on its own, but the temporary special exhibit was the real highlight. Select ...

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    ... , which holds all the Roman antiquities. It really helps to know Roman history when you're looking at Roman antiquities. The Capitoline Museum holds antiquities mostly from 2nd C B.C. to 3rd C A.D. The most impressive one I found was the bronze sculpture ...

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    ... , including a slice of gorgonzola covered with honey, served with a glass of Marsala. In the afternoon we went to the Capitoline museum. Don't know if we mentioned this in an earlier entry, but this week is a nation-wide cultural celebration in Italy, so ...

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    ... ) are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the famous Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The museums are contained in three buildings surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo ...

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    ... ;I really want to bring students there so that they can see that.   Finishing the forum, we bought tickets to the Capitoline museum.  Finally, we found a place that was nearly deserted.  We spent hours wandering from room to room to see ...

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    ... in the church, just climed the 200 steps out the front for a photo op!! Next we walk around the back way to the capitoline museum past the theatre that was superceeded by thed colloseum, name escapes me at the moment. Get up to the Capitoline and it is ...

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    ... of the Piazza was a huge (replica) 2nd C equestrian bronze of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Then we went quickly into the Capitoline Museum (a 12thC wing – Palazzo Senatorio (now the city hall); 15th C Palazzo dei Conservatori of Pope Sixtus V and ...

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    ... sweet because we were getting close to lunch time and it was seriously hot.  We broke for lunch and then tried to do the Capitoline Museums.  Of course, since we had moved to Monday, it was closed.  The plan for the Rome days was to do an ...

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    Last Day

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    ... so I took everybody else into the city to see anything else from the list of main sites.  We ended up doing the Pantheon, the Capitoline Museums and the Esquiline hill.  It was a long hot walk, but we really enjoyed it.  I was glad to get ...