Rome, Italy Photo Gallery by Jason Thomas at pbase.com

Rome, Italy

Rome was the last city on the trip but was definately the best. It was big city and ancient ruins all mixed together. The city seemed to have it's own personality, there was always a buzz of people regardless of time of day. The first night we were there I wandered around until almost midnight and there were so many people out and about you would think it was mid afternon, except for the lack of daylight. We did the best we could to see everything but it just isn't possible in 3 days. There are so many different basilicas all over town and all of them have ancient relics that are worth seeing; the chains that bound St. Peter, thorns from the crown worn by Jesus, the plaque from the cross and so on, they are spread over the many many basilicas of Rome. Not to mention the museums, the Vatican and the landmarks such as the Coloseum. We did the best we could to see the biggest and the best but it will take another trip to Rome to really see everything. We spent couple days touring the major basilicas of Rome and ancient ruins then spent nearly the entire final day of our trip at the Vatican. The vatican iteslef has just so much to see. We started underground touring the excavation of St. Peter's tomb, where his remains can still be seen (barely). Then we made our way up one level to the grotto, where most of the previous popes are on display (closed coffins of course). Next to the ground level and St Peter's Basilica. It was absolutely huge, the detail and size of everything was just incredible. After that we headed to the Vatican Museums which were unbelievable. They had everything from paintings and sculptures to ancient roman, egyptian and religeous artifacts. The museum system also include the Sistine Chapel, unfortunatetely no photographs here either. The last thing we did was to climb to the top of the dome on top of St Peter's. It was a seriouse climb but worth the view for me, Amanda had a somewhat different opinion :)

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