Day 7: Rome

Finally we got to Rome! And it was warm! Yay! Rome really is an amazing city with so much to see! I wish we had more time there! The city was swarming with tourists even in winter! They were everywhere!


Santa Maria degli Angeli



Piazza della Repubblica



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Palazzo delle Esposizioni



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Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II



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view from the top of the monument



Trajan's market



the remains of Roman forum



Piazza Venezia



the colosseum!!



ruins in the ancient centre



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the Cordonata leading up to the Capitoline Museums



Piazza del Campidoglio



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ruins of the Roman forum. We didn't have a chance to go because it closes at 3:30pm :S


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the temple of Jupiter



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the size of the Roman empire at its peak



Finally the colosseum! We couldn't go into it either because it was closed at 3:30pm as well :S



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the colosseum with Arco di Costantino



the colosseum at night!

Day 6: Florence

It snowed over night and we had a white Florence!!



Piazza della Liberta



Uffizi



Ponte Vecchio



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Palazzo Pitti. Unfortunately Giardino di Boboli was closed because of the snow :(



Piazza S. Spirito



by Fiume Arno



crossing Ponte alla Carraia



Santa Maria del Carminine



Ognissanti



Enej feeling nostalgic with a car that his family used to have



Santa Maria Novella



San Lorenzo



Santa Croce


We went to the Uffizi art gallery in the afternoon. It displays the art treasure of the Medici family and includes some very famous art works such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Primavera and da Vinci's The Annunciation.


view from Uffizi



looking towards Piazza Signoria



Ponte Vecchio



Palazzo Vecchio



the B&B

We ordered in pizza the previous night and that day we cooked some pasta at the B&B. Enej has been falling dead asleep in the early evening for days. His excuse was jet lag and it's actually pretty funny :P

Florence is a pretty nice city, although not the most impressive. I was glad that it was cleaner than Venice and the streets were a little easier to follow.