Excel Roma Montemario Rome

... collection on its own.

No place knows culture like Rome. Beijing, Athens, Cairo, Istanbul have their depth, but no place commands influence in art, architecture, history, politics, military and style like Rome. The City learned to bury its treasures during times of war, having been sacked dozens of times. With lots of treasures and lots of sackings, Rome’s subsoil is still a gold mine of culture. Populations were often ...

... visited them before, the richness of the art collection left us all breathless. One can spend weeks just going through the museums that are open to the public. We can only imagine what is stored in the areas that are not open to the public. The Vatican Museums display works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Church throughout the centuries. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the ...

... I would have to take the plane to get there. Strange how your estimation of proximity can be altered. I guess that the more you look forward or on the contrary dread a place, a trip, an experience, the further it seems. On this occasion I was happy to go, both because I was going to travel and because it was professionally exciting. But on the other hand I knew in advance what it meant to be far from everything on a ...

... us long to get in. It was the amount of people that just made the experience not enjoyable. But we got there and looked up at the ceiling (and the front wall (Judgement Day) in awe and amazement. And art history never interested me previously but now the stories behind the frescoes just gave the actual artwork more meaning and complexity. Just knowing a simple fact like one half of the ceiling is different in style to the other half was because Michaelangelo thought the ...

... our backs again for a trip to Rome. Roma was a wondrous place full of grandness, a nice blend of metropolis, Renaissance and medieval Italy with monuments of the Golden Age everywhere. From walking down antique streets encrusted with ancient ruins to relaxing in medieval piazzas overshadowed by timeless monuments like the Pantheon (ancient temple of the gods) which didn't look like it had ...

... Berlitz Kids at an English camp in Schoemberg, a small community in the Black Forest area not too far from Karlsruhe. After classes had begun, I went to Paris for a long weekend (April 2 - May 1). The following weekend, I travelled with some girlfriends to Lake Constance and this past weekend, I was to Tuebingen, also with girlfriends. Tomorrow I head to Zuerich, Switzerland with the CYF group. I really liked Rome, and it is probably because I was reminded so much of ...

... cute priest rushed off. A nun skipped over a giant tangle of the camera cables causing roadbumps every 20 feet on the street leading to the piazza. A young man emerged from a nicknack shop, drew his newly purchased rosary from its little plastic baggie, and gave it a kiss. A bunch of German tourists stomped by following the direction of a tour guide carrying a rainbow-colored umbrella. They all wore yellow handkerchiefs around their necks. Wait, WAS this a ...

... were quaint, and even the McDonalds had a guilded sign out front! One night there, and we took a bus tour down the Romantic Road and through Munich, into Bavaria. We went to Nuechwanstein and Hoschwangau castles, and stayed in a little town called Fussen. The castles were incredible, especially the interior wall paintings. Unfortunately it rained all day...no, it POARED, and there was nothing to stand under while waiting, so we were wet and cold ...