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Weekend-Travel from 14. to 16. November 2003.After having received a cheap offer for spending a weekend in Rome from our travel agency, we decided to enjoy the sun once more and to fly in the South. The flight started at 6.15 a.m. and therefore we had to get up at 3.00 a.m. in the morning, but it was worth it. We flew into a wonderful sunrise and reached Rome after one hour and ten minutes flying time. From the airport we took the "Leonardo Express" to the "Termini" which is the central station. From there we took the "Metro" and finally arrived at our hotel. And from there, we were ready to start our adventure
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Our "Tour de Barock" started from the beautiful "Piazza del Popolo". From there, we hat our first impressive view via half the city. It was already there that everything seemed to be very charming and big. We continued to walk through the wonderful green gardens of the "Villa Borghese" which is the second largest park in Rome. It is situated directly in the centre of the city. At the "Tempio di Esculapio" the picture you can see at the right side was taken.
Our next stage was the road of "Dolce Vita". In a café in this road we bought some icecream and enjoyed it while walking down the "Via Vittorio" towards the "Piazza Barberini" with it's "Fontana del Tritone". The weather was nice with sinshine and 17°C.
We turned into the steeply rising "Via Quattro Fontane". At the left side we could see a three-storey facade of the "Palazzo Barberini".
At the crossing of the four fountains our way led us into the long and straight "Via Quirinale". Along this road, we passed the official residence "Quirinale" of the Italian president, the palace's beautiful gardens and had a wide panorama over the whole city from the "Piazza del Quirinale". Afterwards, we had to pass the palace guards, went down the flat steps of the "Via Dataria" and finally could heard the rush of the "Fontana di Trevi".The most famous water pipe of Rome is situated on a small place and surrounded by six-storied "Palazzi". It is not only the tourists, who are throwing a coin into the flat basin to return to Rome sometimes or other.We crossed the "Via del Corso" strolled over the "Piazza Colonna" with it's "Mark-Aurel-Monument" (which you can see in the picture at the right side), passed the "Palazzo Chigi" which is the seat of government up to the "Piazza Montecitorio". The "Piazza Montecitorio's" elegant and curved facade is the seat of the parliament.
Passing the "Phantheon" we came to the small "Piazza S. Eustachio".
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