Rome at Night

So one of the coolest things we did in Rome was turn on our iPods and walk the city of Rome at night. The city is lit up at night, and it makes for an awesome walk about. Before we left I read the below article on nyt.com and downloaded the audio to our iPods, I would recommend this to anyone visiting Rome.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/travel/20rome.html

Standing on Via dei Fori Imperiali you can see the Colosseum glow at night. Next we walked to where Rome began, the Capitoline Hill, where Michelangelo designed Piazza del Campidoglio, overlooking the ruins of the Forum.

Next we walked down Michelangelo’s steps to the mini-Colosseum of the Theater of Marcellus, and the ruins of the Octavian Gate. Walking along Via del Portico d’Ottavia, we visited the Jewish Ghetto and then the tiny Piazza Mattei with a fountain in the center of 4 bronze boys playing in the Fountain of the Turtles.

We ended our walk in Largo Argentina and said hello to unwanted cats given sanctuary by the columns of the Republican Victory Temples. It is here that Julius Caesar was killed on on March 15, 44 B.C.