View from the Vittoriano
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Roman Forum
The forum at night with the Colosseum in the background.
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Colosseum at night
Taken on our first night in Rome
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Trevi Fountain
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View from our hotel
View looking south on Via Petroselli from our hotel room. The temples date to...
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Teatro Marcello
The building on the left is the Teatro Marcello - the first permanent theater...
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Colosseum
Inside the Colosseum - the chambers where gladiators and animals were kept...
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Colosseum
One of the passageways to seating areas inside the Colosseum.
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Colosseum
View from Via dei Fori Imperiali. The Forum area is on the right. The...
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Pantheon
Built as a Roman temple in the 2nd Century, this building has the original...
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Foro Romano
View into the Roman Forum - the "downtown" of ancient Rome in Julius...
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Foro Romano
Inside the Roman Forum area.
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Foro Romano
Me and Julius Ceasar
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Foro Romano
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Foro Romano
View from the Forum. The Colosseum is on the far right.
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Foro Romano
Inside the Roman Forum
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Typical Roman street
Located in a maze of streets north of the Roman Forum
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Rome
Sidestreet and parking for scooters. There are thousands and thousands...
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Vatican Museums
One of many many hallways on the way to the Sistine Chapel
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Vatican
Inside St. Peter's
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Vatican
Michaelangelo's dome in St. Peter's Basilica
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Vatican
St. Peter's Basilica
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Castel Sant'Angelo
The bridge and original structure of the castle date to the 2nd Century.
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Castel Sant'Angelo
Originally built in the 3rd Century as Hadrian's tomb, it was...
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Castel Sant'Angelo
View of the Tiber River and bridges from the top of Hadrian's Tomb...
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Castel Sant'Angelo
Rafael's angel in Castel Sant'Angelo
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Florence
Duomo (cathedral) and Giotti's Tower. The panoramic photos of...
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Florence
Detail of the Duomo, the main cathedral
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Florence
Doors of the Baptistery near the main cathedral. The originals are in...
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Florence
View from Giotti's Tower
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Florence
View of Florence from Giotti's Tower
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Florence
View of Florence from the Boboli Gardens
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Florence
View of Tuscany hills from the Boboli Gardens
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Florence
Ponte Vecchio, a bridge over the Arno River built in the...
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Florence
One of the many gelatto shops in Florence. The one of the far upper...
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Florence
Florence streets at night
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Rome
Rome street near the Spanish Steps
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Gelatto!
These signs are all over Rome. There are gelatto places on every block...
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Rome
Coffee store in Rome
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Capitol
View to the Capitol and Capitol Museum
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View from the Vittoriano
View over the Forum with the Colosseum in the distance.
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Rome
Mosaics and wall paintings, now in the Capitol Museums
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Capitol Museums
Discobolos - an ancient Roman copy of the Greek original
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Capitol Museums
One of the large mosaics in the Capitol Museums
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Capitol Museums
One of the sculpture halls
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Capitol Museums
Joe and Emperor Constantine
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Capitol Museums
One of the many sculpture halls in the Capitol Musuems.
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Trajans's Forum
This forum was a large public area built by Emporer Trajan. It included...
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Trajan's Forum
View of Trajan's Markets
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Palatine Hill
Remains of the emperors' palaces on Palatine Hill, next to the Forum area
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Palatine Hill
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Palatine Hill
Palatine Hill is the most ancient part of Rome and the location of the first...
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Palatine Museum
One of the remarkable sculptures in the Palatine Museum.
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Trastevere neighborhood
There are posters like this all over Rome announcing political events....
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
Originally built in the 4th Century, then rebuilt in the 1100s.
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Ostia Antica
Family crypt in Ostia Antica. You walk through the cemetary on the way to the...
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Ostia Antica
A restaurant in Ostia Antica. The painting above the counter is...
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Ostia Antica
The public restroom
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Ostia Antica
View from the amphitheater
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Ostia Antica
Apartments and shops in Ostia.
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Rome
St. Peter's in the distance.
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Rome
View over Rome from Capitol Hill. The dome in the distance is St....
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Greenland
Greenland and the frozen North Atlantic. Brr!
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