Assorted Other Pictures & Places |
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When the Romans conquered new areas, they appropriated some of the local flavor and carted it back to Rome. |
My dad said we really should go through the Jewish Ghetto so we did but I didn't see what all the fuss was about. |
A kosher bistro in the Ghetto. |
In the Jewish Ghetto. |
View from the Spanish Steps & some really fun shopping down that street. |
A view OF the Spanish Steps! |
A rooftop garden near the Spanish Steps. |
Some monument or other, somewhere in Rome. |
The Forum (as seen from the Coliseum)
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I believe this giant head is somewhere outside the Coliseum but I could be wrong. |
Artifacts excavated and painstakingly reassembled in the National Museum of Rome. |
These cubby-holes would have been in a crypt, from what the signage said. |
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The precision of the carving to get those tiny words into the marble is astonishing. |
A critter-filled mosaic. |
Cheesin' it up for the camera in one of the museums! |
A Cirque du Soliel-esque statue intended to be part of a fountain. |
A crypt. |
Another crypt. |
Yep, another crypt. |
The mega-crypt. |
Come on - doesn't the head on the top left of the mega-crypt look a lot like Elvis Presley?? |
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