Rome Sightseeing

... at this amazing "floating" city. Stop in Assisi to visit St. Francis' Basilica, then on to the "Eternal City" of Rome with sightseeing that highlights the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. In Renaissance Florence, a Local Guide shows you Piazza Santa Croce, ...

Day 6, TTEE 2008.  Rome - sightseeing & at leisure   This morning after a wonderful Italian breakfast of bread, cheese, salami and coffee we again loaded onto the bus.  Today a new bus with an Italian driver, we left Italy for a new ...

Italy Blog Friday and Saturday   Sightseeing Rome   Our agenda for Friday included seeing as much of the Vatican area as possible.  We got an early start and took the train into Rome, arriving by 9am.  We then transferred to the ...

Michelangelo's amazing works are included on our guided sightseeing tour. First we visit The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapels where we see MICHELANGELO'S DEPICTION OF " THE CREATION"...this waS THE MOST FASCINATING ART WORK AND THE COLOURS ARE ...

... morning for breakfast we went to the buffet for breakfast. After breakfast we went around and learnt about the history of Rome in the Vatican Museum. Inside we saw Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling in the Sistine chapel. It was very articulate and ...

Big day touring Rome today. First up was the Vatican. We were the first group of the day, which meant we weren't as suffocated as you normally would be by tourists.  They actually let in up to 4,000 people at a time. The art works, sculptures, ...

We canceled our adventure to go to Greece but we will go to Mykonos a few years later. We stayed in Frosinone and did a few trips to Rome. Then back to ...

... the book. Italy truly is a gastronomic Disneyland. Aside from practically inhaling pasta and olive oil, we also did a lot of sightseeing and touristy things (not as the Romans do... but let's face it, we are tourists). One of the most impressive ...

... down to the Circus Maximus and took the metro from there to the hostel. Monday A wonderful sunny day in Rome...it was time to do some serious sightseeing. On the agenda was the Pantheon, Gesú church, Castello St.Angelo, the Spanish Steps... It was indeed ...

... get into St Peter's Basilica but instead took in the beautiful surroundings.   Realising we only had a few hours left of sightseeing we jumped on a metro to the Mouth of Truth located in the church of Santa Maria before heading back into the city ...

... and I was told to be quiet as I talked too loud to Alaina.  Geez Romans! Around the corner we caught a double decker sightseeing bus for a tour of the city.  It was really great, like our own private bus.  For more then 1/2 the trip we ...

ROME. The "Eternal City" - a city steeped in history, vibrantly alive, and exciting and absolutely unique! Included sightseeing with a Local Guide starts in St. Peter's Square, followed by a visit to the Roman Forum and the mighty Colosseum. (B) ...

... - other than those two little incidents it has been amazingly reasonable. Tomorrow we are off to the Vatican and more wandering around sightseeing.and maybe a spot of shopping but haqve not been too bothered with shopping - there is too much else to do - ...

Breakfast in the hotel was interesting, remember this was our first trip abroad. We set out on a sightseeing trip Where to first but St. Peters and at 8.30 am. it was so hot we needed the bottles of frozen water sold all around the square. St Peters is ...

... lucky in our visit to Rome as we got the best of both worlds. Throughout the days we were tourists, doing the normal sightseeing that every other tourist does and falling into the tourist traps that everyone else does. However we got the added bonus ...

... of the most prolific film-score writers in the world). Giuliana and I decamp back to Rome the next day for a bit of sightseeing. I have been through Rome at least half a dozen times in the last 3 years but have not stopped there. We take a bus to the ...

... are jam packed full of tourists and Italians alike, enjoying a slice of pizza or gelato on a roadside between shopping and sightseeing. And thankfully, it’s more affordable than Switzerland. Yes, I’m happy to announce we are finally able to ...

... was a great value!  We arrived after dark on Saturday night, around 7:00, so we did not have plans to do any sightseeing, but we were very hungry and I (Tyler) had been craving pizza since we left the U.S.  After checking in and dropping ...

... us how to get around. I wish we could have spend more time with her but she worked a lot and we did a lot of sightseeing. For sightseeing we rode our bikes. That worked very well even with the many steep hills and cobblestones. When we got too far from ...

... go or it counts as an absent.  Luckily my theology teacher thinks it's lame that we have class so he takes us sightseeing instead of being in class...he calls it sightseeing Fridays.  This past Friday we went to San Giovanni in Laterano (St ...