Rome was the perfect way to leave Italy. I feel like it just sums it all up and is the perfect transition into Greece. On your first day in Rome John took us on a walking tour around where our hotel was located. The first picture of a fountain is from the Piazza Navona which has two fountains created by Bernini. After that we went on to the Pantheon, which is one of my favorite monuments in the whole world. It is a piece of architecture created in the Roman period which combines Roman ideals with Greek. It is a temple originally dedicated to a variety of gods but now is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, of course. The next day we visited the Vatican Museums and St. Peters Basilica. The Vatican museums, which house Raphael's School of Athens as well as the Sistine Chapel, were so crowded it took forever to get through it all. But there was also a section of the museums which housed statues including The Laocoon, shown above. Then we went inside St. Peter's which is crazy decorated but amazingly beautiful. Housed inside the basilica, St. Peter's is not a cathedral because it is the personal chapel to the Pope, is Michelangelo's La Pieta. On our last day in Rome we walked through the Forum and finished at the the Colosseum. After this we all went exploring through the city and there is an image of a shot taken over the Tiber river to the small island Tiberna. Our last night we visited the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain.
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