Hotel Santa Maria Rome

... Same thing as I was walking down the streets in Florence, bringing my group in front of the amazing cathedral called Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore. These are all phenomenal experiences that I got paid to enjoy, through my career in the Travel & Tourism ...

Santa Maria Sopra Minerva- We wanted to visit this church with a plain exterior neat the Pantheon. It is Rome's only church done in Gothic style. It is truly amazing how beautiful it is on the inside when the outside is so plain. This church also has ...

Arrived in Rome, stayed at Hotel Santa Maria in Trastevere, a nice area of Rome, just southwest of the Colosseum.  The hotel had a good deal from their website at $160 a night, but now it's apparently twice that or more.  I guess word got ...

... on roman ruins, a few yards away from the piazza. With a roof top terrace over looking both the alley leading to Hotel Santa Maria, and our favourite restaurant, we settled in immediately. We spent the evening at the restaurant, chatting with Marco and ...

... in the same area. Travestere House is a quaint little building in the heart of the old Roman quarter within walking distance of Piazza Santa Maria. The room was small but quaint with the toilet on one side of the window and the shower on the other. ...

... bears at dangerous intersections we all want to somehow remember our lost loved ones. This sometimes leads to dilemmas.  Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini  has an interesting way of approaching this challenge. Inside you will find ...

... in its simplicity - recently renovated and re-dedicated only last Sunday. And one church, sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, was the pits: Santa Maria Maggiore - nowhere else were poor footsore tourists told to get up when they sat on the steps for a few ...

... sculpture and architecture that seem to be on nearly ever corner in Rome.  All were exceptional places to see, particularly the Santa Maria d'Araceoeli from the 13th Century, as well as the Santa Maria del Popolo.   Moving on to the beautiful ...

... come for religious reasons and then those like us come for the art. No matter what you come to Rome for you leave with so much more. Santa Maria Aracoeli sits on a hill right next to the Capitoline Museums and the "typewriter" monument. I guess ...

... about $1 - a quarter the price we were paying in France) and we are very close to the centre of ancient Rome. Walked to Santa Maria Maggiore and down Via Cavour before literally stumbling onto the Forum - brilliant! It was still only 9am ...

... Jewish Ghetto. On the way we bumped into an incredible church (The Santa Maria) of course, there are a lot of Churches called Santa Maria in Rome, and we don’t know which one this was. We continued to make our way through the alleys towards the ...

... took me back to the now familiar metro station, and I traveled back up to Piazza del Popolo, where I visited the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo.  It's amusing how many of these squares are simply named after the church that dominates its view. ...

... 's Basilica, Basicila di Santa Maria Maggiore, Basilica di San Pietro in Vinoli, Colesseum, Palatine, Roman Forum, and Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezione, and.... i.e. a lot of walking!! It just so happens that the one and only George Bush has been ...

... of our very own Mary MacKillop. A poster in the square announced the blesseds by name and we learned that she would be called Santa Maria della Croce (St. Mary of the Cross) which is obviously the Italian translation of the religious name assumed by Mary ...

... and they have continued to build with the most enduring materials available.  You won’t find any particle board in Santa Maria Maggiore.  Street curbs and gutters are marble, fences are cast iron, many streets are granite, garbage bins ...

... playing a violin near by. So romantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwAmZFeoXM After leaving the Pantheon we stroll over to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva where the famous Bernini Elephant Pulcino della Minerva sits outside with the oblelisk sits on its ...

... camera tripods on the way back to the hotel we came across a beautiful basilica which turned out to be one of Rome's four main Basilica's, Santa Maria Maggiore.  This is where the Pope holds a mass every year on the 8th December to begin the ...

... as will all other Roman structures.  It also contains the first dome.  I thought the dome we saw at Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was the first, but in fact a thousand years earlier the Romans had accomplished the feat after 3 ...

... thinking December would not be crowded! Finished the circle bus tour, visited the National Museum, nice lunch, then saw the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. Off to find internet service somewhere so we can post these first two days. There are fewer and ...

... Temple of Hercules and the Theatre of Marcellus which looks like a miniature version of the Coliseum. We then headed to the church Santa Maria in Cosmedin where the Mouth of Truth is housed. Before entering the church, there is the ancient mask of a ...