Villa Montemario Rome

... a contest to restore the missing pieces. Michaelangelo’s entry lost, but 400 years later, the missing arm was discovered and found to be almost identical to the one he proposed.

The architecture, monuments, palaces, and ruins track Western history. You can see where Caesar was stabbed in 44 BC, where Hadrian bought his fruit, where Caligula partied, where Michaelangelo wrote poetry, where Caravaggio murdered one of his ...

... young Tuscan woman named, Gloria, who was so very well-versed on the history of the Vatican - from the mythological and religious perspectives. We spent more than 3-hours with her - listening, learning and appreciating all that on the surface seems to be coincidental, but it fact is very purposeful throughout centuries of tradition. The Vatican Museum (Musei Vaticani) inside the Vatican City, is among the greatest of museums in the world, since it ...

... que as Pizzas da italia eram muito diferentes das brasileiras, mas creio que, as que tive oportunidade de comer, eram bem parecidas. Acho que a variedade de como se faz as pizzas aqui eh muito grande e, por coincidencia, calhou de eu ter comido as variantes mais parecidas com as nossas. A diferenca, em relacao as pizzas que vi e comi em Roma, vinham do formato da pizza e dos tipos. As de la nao eram redondas, mas sim retangulares e as pessoas nao pagavam por fatia, mas sim ...

... Rome was partying, the streets were empty and the bars were full! It's like a holiday here when there's a soccer game. We're in Champions League season, which means serious soccer. I'm going to follow Roma til the end and I hope AC Milan loses because I'm tired of hearing about "the greatest team in the world" and whatnot. But they're like a Boston Red Sox or NY Yankees of professional soccer and it sickens me. Anyway tonight, go Arsenal ...

Yesterday we drove to Rome where we walked around the central part for a while and saw things like the Spanish Steps, the Trivea fountain, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona.We then ate dinner in a local resturant which included some very italian dishes like pasta and tomato and mozerella salad. Today we went to the Vatican City, the smallest country in the world, 1.5 square km I ...

... line for the elevator up to the dome was pretty long, and the weather wasn't very good so we skipped out on the view. Afterwards we grabbed lunch (and by grabbed I mean sat down for at least an hour and a half - eating is always an activity for us) on our way to Piazza del Popolo where we started our walking tour of Rome. From Piazza del Popolo we walked over to the Spanish Steps and down into the Piazza di Spagna, to the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, Piazza Navona ...

... Food is good. There were funny
singing... (not good singing). After dinner we went down to see the old
restaurant (now a museum). It's interesting~ It's dark, cool, and
humid in the basement.





We returned to the tourist booth and bought bus tickets at a trattoria.
We took a bus back to Station Termini. That's like the earliest day we
returned to the hotel.

... eventual fireworks. We watched a man on stilts dressed as a rooster work the crowds and tried to figure out where we were on a map in relation to the city's duomo and other popular sites. Around 10:00 pm we decided to give up and return to the hotel but just as we neared the line of refreshment stands, the fireworks began. Even back at our hotel we could see the brightly colored lights and fell asleep to the sound of acrush of people making their way home.

... we met a cute old Jesuit who took us on a more "exclusive" tour into the back rooms of the Jesuit residence where we saw some priceless artworks and some belongings of old popes. The Jesuit was hilarious and really made the experience memorable. After all of that, we were exhausted from walking around as much as we did. We got back to the Rome Center around 8:30pm, grabbed a quick sandwich and headed to bed. Tomorrow's class starts again at 8am!

... heen te motoren naar Porte Ercole. Half slapend genieten we toch van de grote begroeide kliffen en grotten van Monte Argentario. De wind wakkert flink aan en achter elke kaap draait de wind naar pal tegen. Bovendien blijkt het eiland ietsjes groter (en mooier) dan gedacht. Om elf uur liggen we uiteindelijk in de geplande haven. Hoe werkt deze haven?? We merken dat elke steiger zijn eigen vereniging is, waar je toestemming aan iemand terplaatse ...