May 1-3, 2015:
We used this brief stop in Rome to see various sights before heading to Sicily.
Saint Prassede Church:
Completed in 822, this minor Catholic basilica features decorative mosaics & ancient frescoes.
Saint Prassede Church
Saint Mary Major Church:
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, or church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the largest Marian church in Rome, Italy.
Saint Mary Major Church
St. Peter in Chains Church:
Michelangelo’s statue of Moses dominates this coffered 400s church, also home to St. Peter’s chains..
St. Peter in Chains Church
Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and Martyrs:
The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and of the Martyrs is a Catholic titular minor basilica and former Carthusian conventual church in Rome, Italy, constructed in the ruined frigidarium and tepidarium of the Roman Baths of Diocletian in the Piazza della Repubblica.
Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and of the Martyrs
Baths of Diocletian:
The Baths of Diocletian were public baths in ancient Rome. Named after emperor Diocletian and built from AD 298 to 306, they were the largest of the imperial baths.
Baths of Diocletian
Baths of Diocletian Museum:
Baths of Diocletian Museum
Circus Maximus:
The Circus Maximus is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue in Rome, Italy. In the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.
Circus Maximus
Tiber River:
The Tiber is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna.
Tiber River
Marcello Theater, etc.:
The Theatre of Marcellus is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic.
Marcello Theater
Temple of Portunus – Forum Boarium:
The Temple of Portunus is an ancient Roman temple in Rome, Italy. It was built beside the Forum Boarium, the Roman cattle market associated with Hercules, which was adjacent to Rome’s oldest river port and the oldest stone bridge across the Tiber River, the Pons Aemilius.
Temple of Portunus
Temple of Apollo Sosianus at the Forum Holitorium:
The Temple of Apollo Sosianus is a Roman temple dedicated to Apollo in the Campus Martius, next to the Theatre of Marcellus and the Porticus Octaviae.
Temple of Apollo Sosianus
Monument to Victor Emmanuel II:
The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument, also known as the Vittoriano or Altare della Patria, is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy.
Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Basilica of Saint Cecilia in Trastevere:
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere rione. It is deducated to the Roman martyr Saint Cecilia and serves as the conventual church for the adjacent abbey of Benedictine nuns.
Basilica of Saint Cecilia in Trastevere
Trastevere Walking Tour:
Self-Guided walking tour of Trastevere
Basilica of Saint Mary in Trastevere:
Our Lady in Trastevere is a titular minor basilica in the Trastevere district of Rome, and one of the oldest churches of Rome, probably the first place of Christian worship in Rome.
Basilica of Saint Mary in Trastevere
Roman Forum:
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
Roman Forum
Colosseum:
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age.
Colosseum
National Museum of Rome:
Wish we could have seen the Vatican Museums, but the lines were over four hours long…
National Museum of Rome
Appian Way and Catacomb of Saint Callistus:
The Catacomb of Callixtus is one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, most notable for containing the Crypt of the Popes, which once contained the tombs of several popes from the 2nd to 4th centuries.
Appian Way and the Catacomb of Saint Callistus
Crypt of the Popes
This concludes our brief visit to Rome. On to Sicily…