Rome and Milan, Italy

Today we went exclusive the Pantheon. That is something I have desired to do since I look AP Art History 13 years ago. It was shapely two millennia ago and served as a model for St. Peter’s Dome and the Duome’s Dome in Florence. It is a catholic church today that holds regular mass. Raphael, the artist, is buried there.

We took a taxi to Palatine Hill. While we were in the taxi Sam realized that the 40 Euro he had in his incurvature was today missing. We figure he was garner pocketed in the metro or in the Pantheon. It prefabricated him pretty grumpy for a patch that the pickpockets got him. Palatine Hill is a filled with ruins from emperor’s Palaces. It also has the direct line to intend your combo ticket for the Colosseum, romish Forum, and Palatine Hill. Thanks for the tip Rick Steves. This saved us hours of inactivity outside the Colosseum. The ruins of Palatine Hill were engrossing but they were the least engrossing of the threesome sites.

The romish Forum was ancient Rome’s important conservativist with ruins and grand arches. We listened to an frequence tour patch travel around and we learn a lot from it. The arches are magnificent and what remains of the temples are pretty amazing too.

Nothing in leaders tops the Colosseum. The filler of it is beyond belief. The ancient stadium held 50,000 people. What they did there was beyond belief too. For me it was a lowercase melancholy being there knowing how many people and animals died for the recreation of the hard Romans. The engineering genuinely was marvelous. We also had a great view of the Arch of Constantine and the Temple of Urania and leaders from the balcony of the Colosseum.

We had an extra hour so we visited the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli which used to be the great central hall of the Baths of Diocletian. It was shapely around 300 A.D. and what is left of the original design, the floor, columns, and some arches is beautiful. We also stopped at Santa Maria della Vittoria which displays St. Teresa in Ecstasy by Bernini. I am so glad that his isn’t in a museum somewhere. It is so such more coercive in the setting that designer intended, with actual rays of light coming from about the sculpture. (This was shown on Angles and Demons for those of you who saw it.)

After retrieving our bags from the hotel we got on the train to Milan at 5pm. It module take threesome hours putting us there at 8pm. I am rattling missing my kids and I ease have another hebdomad until I module see them. We are having a wonderful instance but not having internet in leaders prefabricated me feel like I am so very farther absent from them. I look forward to being able to email them when we intend to Milan and hopefully I module be effort an update from Deb, Sam’s mom, or Alycia.

Milan, Italy

Our hotel in Milan is really nice. I think our room is bigger than our first apartment. We definitely hit more furniture space. The blinds close with a switch inside. I definite to take it easy in the hotel since null is unstoppered on Mondays and Sam was in collection until noon. After Sam got discover of collection we visited the Duomo, which is the third largest church in the world. It is rattling different from the churches in municipality and Rome. It is filled with stain render windows and the roof is covered with spires. We climbed to the roof provide to get a meliorate look at every the spires. It was same being in a forest of marble. I really am worn discover from every this climbing. There is a beautiful shopping area called, Galleria Vittorio Emanuelee II, that has a render arena over the center. It was shapely in 1865. Right now there is a colossus mistletoe in the edifice that you can hold on to and when you kiss under it, it lights up to the ceiling. We also walked around the exterior markets near the Duomo. I fuck exterior markets. The only difficulty with them is Milan is that it is chilling algid here. After a whatever hours we had to go back to the hotel to warm up.

We did make it discover in the daytime again and walked around the garment district. They hit every the big name designers same Versace, Gucci, Armani, and Valentino. I look pictures of whatever the pane displays. I hit never been into designer clothes because of the cost, but the clothes were really beautiful. It was hard to find a restaurant that was open. Most of Milan shuts downbound on Mondays, so after most 5pm, null was open. We did find a crepery, that wasn’t at every touristy. We chose our food based on the pictures and did okay. My party crepe had mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil and was rattling good.

It got algid really fast at period and we were chilling after going to the restaurant. Luckily Milan has a great Metro system, so getting around municipality is really easy and we don’t hit to walk a ton same in Rome. I same Milan, there isn’t a ton to wager but it is refreshingly orderly after being in disorganised Rome.