Category: Italy

• September 14, 2015
• Day 7
• Rome

Fascinated by the floor at Basilica di San Giovanni, M. C. Escher’s optical illustians seem to appear.

• 1st, 2nd 3rd Basilica di San Giovanni

Spinning wheels gotta go round.

See the man pushing the peddle buggy while the women on the side is jogging.  As the buggy creasted the hill, both jumped aboard.  Always room.

The go-cart brought back fond childhood memories of riding and crashing Uncle Wade’s go-cart.

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd Villa Borghese

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

A fine example of the strong unity seen as families gathered to enjoy Legos.  Need not speak Italian to understand the play.  Lego is a universal language.

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd Villa Borghese

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

Bucplic park of Villa Borghese, 7th-century residence of Cardinal Scipone Borghese.

• 1st Temple of Aesculapius 19th-century
• 2nd ll Lago
• 3rd Villa Borghese soccer field

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

Spectacular sculptures. My picks.

• 1st Antonio Canova’s Venus Victrix, 1805-8
• 2nd Goan Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo e Dafne, 1622-5
• 3rd Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-2

• September 13, 2015
• Day 6
• Rome

Venue Museo e Galleria Borghese.  My attire was the famous white shirt, always a fashion statement.

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd photo Museo e Galleria Borghese

• September 12, 2015
• Day 5
• Rome

Angles and shade created by urban  woods.

• 1st photo II Vitoriano
• 2nd & 3rd photo Roman Forum

• September 12, 2015
• Day 5
• Rome

How grand to have been a Roman of class, means, and no political agenda …providing a Roman whose death would be by natural means.

• 1st Road side statue
• 2nd & 3rd Roman Forum

  

• September 11, 2015
• Day 4
• Rome

Rome layered out. A change in perspective.

• 1st & 2nd from the dome of St Peter’s Basilica
• 3rd Vatican Museum