Stay:Camp Ground- Village Flaminio
It was a short walk to the station Due Ponti and not a long time to wait as the trains come every 12min. The journey to Flaminio Station in the centre of Rome is 6 stops taking about 10min.
Today we were going to walk around and familiarise ourselves with Rome.
Our first port of call was the Pantheon, the Roman temple of all the gods. It is the best preserved ancient building (2000 yo) in Rome.
We admired the amazing painted ceilings of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola.
The area Sacra di Largo Argentina was our first Roman ruins.
We walked through Piazza Navona, which was used for athletic contests, chariot races along with other sports.
We looked in the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone which is dedicated to a virgin martyred on the site for refusing to marry a pagan.
We walked through the market in Campi de Fiori which was once the roughest areas of medieval and Renaissance Rome. There is also a statue of a philosopher that had been burned at the stake for heresy for suggesting the earth moved around the sun!
We walked down to the Tiber River .
The Victor Emmanuel Monument looked amazing.
Unfortunately the Trevi Fountain is under maintenance atm, so we couldn't fully appreciate its beauty.
Then it was off to see the Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish Steps which were actually built by the French to link their church to the Piazza.
On the way back to the station we popped in to Santa Maria del Popolo, one of the first Renaissance churches in Rome.
Back at camp we decided to book tickets for tomorrow on the internet for our visit to the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palantine (all 3 for €14 ea, €2 more each but we skip the que).
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