Not sure how we swung that but who’s complaining.
We’ve completed a whirlwind first day here in Rome and I must say, the things we’ve seen are truly blowing my mind to bits! We walked around the Colosseum (not intentionally… we plan to really take some time with it tomorrow morning), visited the Pantheon, strolled through squares and plazas, took a breather by the unbelievable Trevi Fountain, and finally made it to the Spanish Steps.
The Colosseum has an amazing ability to draw people to it. Its got a soul (if you can imagine a building having a soul) that is so powerful its hard to explain.
We haven’t been inside yet but I am really looking forward to being up-close and personal. I don’t know if I just missed out on the history class, but I didn’t realize that Rome is literally littered with ruins! Its amazing and beautiful… So much history. Not the kind of history that we are used… but thousands of years of history. The structures that we saw today were 2000 years old… still standing!
The Pantheon (for Pan = all and Theos = the gods, originally a temple for worshiping your god of choice) is said to be the best preserved ancient structure among the many that are found here. You can tell from the pictures, it’s just lovely. So perfectly structured…original granite columns in the front and a dome that others have tried to imitate for millennia are just a couple of the features. It was saved from ruin status because of the Christian church’s decision to turn the building into a church thus making it acceptable for the faith. It’s the only ancient structure that has been in use since inception. The pictures cant really do it full justice. You have to go there and just sit within the ancient walls to truly feel the presence and absord the magnitude of the structure. The dome is huge, the columns are magnificent… its truly a site.
I wish you all could see this. Everyone Should see this.
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