Protestant Cemetery Rome

I started with jet lag. It's an increasing problem for me travelling, but in a strange way, it also facilitated one of the best parts of the day. When I woke at 6am, unable to even think about sleeping again, I got up and was out the door before seven, having planned a very circuitous route to the start of my first tour (not until 9:30am). It led …

As my cultural event for the week, I finally went to visit Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, a part of the central Capitoline Museum which houses much of the overflow from the main museum site. It is housed in an abandoned electric power plant and the contrast between the industrial and ancient is almost more fascinating than the works of art …

... here (and the only time, 20 years ago), I saw all the major sites and some of 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 ...

... There were also a lot of artists and painters that visited.  You can see the influence these men had in Rome today.  The Protestant Cemetery is one important place.  We visited the cemetery today and it was AMAZING.  There are three ...

... 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 closed to the public (unless you are with the AAR!).  We got to go into it and see the wall ...

... slept in until 9:15 (the latest since I have been here), which was delightful.  Then I decided to go see the Protestant cemetery since I had actually never been.  The Protestant cemetery is not just for Protestants...it is actually for any ...

... are also standing outside Porta San Paolo, one of the 18 original gates of the city. Just beyond the pyramid lies the Protestant Cemetery. This was created in the early 1800s and contains the graves of Romantic poets, John Keats and Percy Bysshe ...

... , that'll do. The cemetery, while not very different from many European cemeteries, is a nice place to wander. It is the Protestant cemetery and, at the time of Keats' death, all Protestants were to be buried outside the city gates at night. Keats' ...

... to see some of the sights that I didn't make last year. An old tomb of a Roman magistrate (Casius Cestius) built as a pyramid. Over 100 ft tall and part of the old city wall. Also, in the Protestant Cemetery are the graves of Shelley and ...

Working my way over to the Protestant Cemetery. Passed by the Temples of Hercules and Portunus and the Circus ...

... spent the morning wandering through the museum and taking pictures of the art. Following this, I went for a nice stroll through the Protestant Cemetery. This is the final resting place of John Keats and one of my favorite places in the city. Even though ...