The Lateran Hill

Another Roman hill  - the Lateran. The Lateran Palace was the residence of the Pope in Rome (one of the three in history: the Lateran, the Quirinal and the Vatican), and therefore it equals in its magnificence the largest Catholic churches in Europe. Before the popes could safely reside in Rome, th...

The Vatican

The Vatican has been described all over many times. Tons of paper have been covered with all the alphabets of the world. We are not going to  compete describing what we saw in more than six hours of our visit to the Vatican Museums and St Peter's Basilica. Thanks to our excellent guide we managed t...

Piazza de Spagna

The seasons have their  rights and they are notoriously fickle. Even in Rome. It is  colder here than usually in February,  and most of the time it's raining. However, nothing will prevent us from fulfiling the programme of our stay here, which is filled up to the minute with attractions which the ...

Giving respect to the Eternal City we started off at the Capitol Hill and museums located there. The Hill and the temple which used to be there, symbolized the power of Roman Empire and hence the name caput mundi - the head, which means the capital of the world. Michelangelo designed the impressiv...
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