Creaky old style elevator gets you to the 4th floor....

...where you open the gate and are at the door to the hotel

Door to our hotel

...our room

...and the breakfast room

...and the reception ara

Saint Peters in Chains Basilica is nothing to look at, but.....

...except inside is Michelangelo’s Moses

....and relics of the Peter...

...and the chains used on St Peter..

Victor Emmanuel monument, or the “wedding cake” by day...

...and by night.

Coliseum

We took a guided tour of the Coliseum and got around all the lines in the 100F heat

View of the reconstructed marble viewing stands

...this is a closeup of the reconstructed marble stands...

A model of a procession of nobles, slaves on their way to a ritual execution

Sculptures and statues are all through the Coliseum

Palatine Hill:  the tallest of the Seven Hills

Arch of Constantine

Palatine Gardens and Caesar’s Palace

Playfield in Caesar’s Palace

Maze and Gardens

Umbrella Pine in the Palatine Gardens

The Forum from the Palatine with St Peters in the distance

Onyx sculpture of a youth in the Palatine Museum

The Forum with the Arch of Severus and the Victor Emanuel Monument (left)

Basilica Aemilla

The Column of Phocas

The Temple of Castor and Pollux

Rome at Night:  Trevi Fountain

Capitolium

Coliseum

Plaza of the Trevi Fountain

Trevi Fountain

The building used to be the terminus of an aqueduct

The Spanish Plaza and the Spanish Steps....

Angel Bridge monument

St Peters and the Vatican Obelisk

St Peters with the Vatican Obelisk

St Peters Square

North Gate

Swiss Guards

Court of the Pine

Cathy, our tour guide

Entering the Vatican Museum

Interior Court

Fresco

Roof of the Sistine Chapel

Connecting staircase between Vatican Museum and St Peters

Michelangelo’s Pieta