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We went out last night to a night club called the Red Garter, there were plenty of sleazy men there and I was happy enough to go home the earliest!

Florence...

Tav
2006-01-13 19:52:24

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made from one piece of cement. They say it's so perfectly designed that if you turned it upside down it would just touch the floor. The Pantheon's walls are 20 feet thick. Raphael's tomb is contained within the Pantheon.

This used to be the tallest building old Rome before they built new Rome directly over the top of old Rome, raising the ground level substantially.

We managed to see a heap of the places where scenes from my favourite Dan Brown book, Angels and Demons, were.

We walked across the Angels Bridge...

Had a great dinner followed by the 'Contiki Special Gelato' it was excellent!!

Before heading home we saw the Colosseum and it was awe inspiring... I can't even begin to imagine how things would have looked years ago when it stood in all its glory, with the battles between man and beast... What a sight it must have been...

The following day we got dropped back at the Vatican for our free day. We couldn't believe how massive the line was to get inside, the line went for km's. Our guide went up and spoke to someone and said he hooked us up and had so many connections he was queue jumping!! The others in the queue didn't really seem that amused as we passed them all and fast tracked through to the front.

The others did a guided tour but Art and I decided to do it on our own. There was so much amazing stuff in there, religious or not... from fully painted ceilings to floor to wall tapestries...

We went to the Sistine Chapel where Michelangelo had done his work... It was amazing, the more you looked at it the more it became 3D. We saw the famous painting of the two men touching fingers which has been reproduced many times as just the two arms...

The Vatican has the biggest collection of art in the world and 75% of it's collection of art is in the vaults below the ground.

We also discovered most of the service stops we visited whilst travelling through Rome belong to the Vatican also... Guess you could say that the food is truly blessed!!