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AROUND ROME - OCTOBER 2006

 

Saint Peter's Basilica - Michelangelo's dome can be seen everywhere except, oddly, if you are standing in the piazza in front of the facade.

 

 

The fountain on a traffic island opposite Sant'Andrea della Valle (on the busy Corso Vittore Emanuele) is a bit of a challenge to reach unhurt, and sadly the water noise is drowned out by traffic ..... so this is probably the best and coolest way of experiencing it!

 

 

A wedding in Santa Maria in Trastevere brightens up the church and tourist day as well. 

 

 

At the other end of town, Santa Maria del Popolo is bathed in sun (at last).  The church, beside the Porta del Popolo (the formal entry into Rome from the Via Flamminia), enjoys a long lunch so we could not refresh the memories two Caravaggios, stuff by Pinturicchio and numerous memories of the della Rovere family (Pope Julius II was a della Rovere).  The building on the right was an Augustinian convent, and was where Martin Luther picked up his ideas about what went on in Rome when he lived there around 1511.

 

 

At the back back of the Pantheon and in front of Rome's only Gothic church, Santa Maria di Minerva,  stands Bernini's elephant.  The statue dates from 1667 and supports a much older Egyprian obelisk found in the ruins of the Roman Temple of Isis which was nearby

 
 

The sun also shone on the column narrating the exploits of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the Dom collected many many jpgs

 

 

The peaceful and well proportioned space of San Vitale, recently reopened after extensive restoration.  This is one of the very early Christian churches, sunk down well below the present street level of the "brutta" (unattractive +) Via Nazionale.  You would not make a special trip to see it, but it's on the way between several better known places, and is certainly worth dropping in to en route.  The single aisle timber roofed basilica space is beautifully proportioned, and gives one a feel for what a Roman basilica and several of the early churches must have felt like.

 

 

And Rafaello's tomb has emerged from under (most of) the renovation screens in the Pantheon.

 
 

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