Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Italy Part 12: Rome - Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, and Pantheon

After viewing the Colosseum in Rome, we took the Metro west a few stops and had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. When we finished, the sky was starting to cloud up, but we decided to walk back to our apartment, checking out three important sites on the way.

First up was the Piazza di Spagna with its famous Spanish Steps. It was hard to get a good picture due to the hordes of other people with the same idea!

The Steps + The Tourists!


Where's Waldo, er, Gus?
Can you find him? :)


Waiting for interested tourists....

Then we walked in the rain to Trevi Fountain. It was difficult to get it all in one frame, especially when trying not to photograph all of the other tourists!











From there, we walked to the Pantheon:

Outside.


Inside. (Obviously.)
I'm not sure why those alcoves turned out green in this photo.
They were actually giving off a yellow-ish light, as can be seen in the next photo:


It's a very large room with a very large hole in the ceiling!


The oculus.

2 comments:

Cranberry Morning said...

How could you not get overload??! So much to see! And I found two Gusses (I don't know the plural for Gus)in that photo. Is he the one near the top of the steps with that Italian chick? jk It is so amazing that in our world of wars, those buildings, or at least large portions, are still remaining.

J_on_tour said...

Wonderful pictures ... love the last one.