Our trip to Italy…part three, Rome!

After we left Venice, Mike and Dani and I traveled to fabulous Rome!

I got the biggest kick out of this scene! People don’t worry too much about the car traffic in some areas This street is not closed to cars, despite what it looks like:

My favorite thing about the entire visit was getting to see in person so many of the artworks that I’ve only seen in books. Michelangelo’s La Pieta is a particular favorite of mine. The list of what we saw was really endless, and I have many more treats from the various museums and monuments posted on my mixed media art blog, called Layers Upon Layers. Please visit there if you’d like more art!

After dinner one of the evenings (I can’t remember which one!), we took a bus ride over to the Trastevere district on the east side of the river. It’s where many large residences, nice apartments, and fine dining can be found. It has a different look and feel from the busy Termini district where we were staying.

Another evening (or maybe it was even the same evening…it stays light so long!), we went to see Trevi Fountain. You couldn’t get anywhere near it because of the throngs of people doing exactly what we were doing! It’s pretty impressive though. Click the link above to see some better images.

As long as I’m sharing some miscellaneous stuff with you, I’ll throw in this striking image from the church known as St Peter in Chains. It’s an amazing church, full of wonderful artwork, but we couldn’t see most of it because there was a wedding going on at the time! Sometimes we forget that many of these wonderful places we visited are operating churches!

Typical tourists that we are, we always visit any Hard Rock Cafe in the cities that we vacation in Rome’s Hard Rock is great!

Dani and Mike with Jimi Hendrix’s
patchwork outfit in the back