Fermi's Birthplace
Date: 04/27/2007
The plaque reads:
The most illustrious intailan physicist of the 20th century, ENRICO FERMI was born in this house on 29 September 1901. His co-citiaaens remember him with admiration.
Fermi's birthplace (close up)
Date: 04/27/2007
The plaque reads:
The most illustrious intailan physicist of the 20th century, ENRICO FERMI was born in this house on 29 September 1901. His co-citiaaens remember him with admiration.
Ss. Coma e Damiano: cloister
Date: 04/28/2007
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 1
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Colosseum
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 2
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Quirinal Hill
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 3
Date: 04/28/2007
Looing towards the Forum & Market of Trajan
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 4
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Esquiline Hill
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 5
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Quirinal. The Quirinal Palace (now the Presidential Palace) is seen in the center of the picture.
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 6
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towardas Trajan's Column
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 7
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking across Piazza Venezia towards the Corso
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 8
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Palazzo Venezia and the Gesu
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 9
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Vatican. Palazzo Venezia is in the foreground. The 3 cupolas, from left to right are:
S.Caterina, S.Pietro in Vaticano, and the Gesu.
Victor Emmanuel II
Date: 04/28/2007
Equistrian Bronze of the 1st King of Italy. This is the world's largest Bronze sculpture, and is the centerpiece of the Victor Emmanual Monument in the center of Rome.
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 10
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking towards the Campus Martius. The low dome almost in the center of the pictures is the Pantheon.
Looking to the very top of The Victor Emmanuel Monument 1
Date: 04/28/2007
Under wraps for restoration!
Looking to the very top of The Victor Emmanuel Monument 2
Date: 04/28/2007
The monument in its baggie for restoration
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 10a
Date: 04/28/2007
the Italian flag adds a bit of color. Again, the low dome is the Pantheon. The tower, is part of Palazzo Venezia.
From atop The Victor Emmanuel Monument 11
Date: 04/28/2007
Looking directly across Piazza Venezia and down the Corso, for centuries the world's widest street!
Victor Emmanual Monument: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Date: 04/28/2007
The Victor Emmanuel Monument: Steps up to the monument itself
Date: 04/28/2007
S.Marco: facade
Date: 04/28/2007
The Victor Emmanuel Monument: from S. Marco
Date: 04/28/2007
Gesu: The facade
Date: 04/28/2007
The headquarters of the Jesuit Order
Book Fountain
Date: 04/28/2007
Near S. Ivo, site of the University of Rome
Giant 'cup' Fountain
Date: 04/28/2007
Not far from Palazzo Madama, the Italian Senate
S. Eustachio: the campanile
Date: 04/28/2007
At least I THINK that's what this is!!!!
S. Ivo: the cupola
Date: 04/28/2007
One of Borromini's greatest whimsical creations
Pantheon: A Positive Organ
Date: 04/28/2007
Pantheon: St. John Evangelist
Date: 04/28/2007
Pantheon: the interior of the cupola
Date: 04/28/2007
Pantheon: Funerary plaque
Date: 04/28/2007
commemorating the compser and violinist Arcangelo Corelli, who is buried here.
Pantheon: a view towards the facade
Date: 04/28/2007