Acient Rome

Much of the attraction of Rome is in just wandering around the old city. Our first day was lucky to get into the ruins of ancient Rome in Colosseo without buying the expressive Rome pass or waiting in line. In fact, the buy-ticket line was much shorter than the Rome Pass line at 9 am. We then wandered the ruins where orators once held forth, senators debated, and Julius Caesar strode the streets, and climbed up to see the ruins of the imperial palaces on the Palatine Hill, with my feet pounded against the worn flagstones of Rome's original, 2,000-year-old roads, which took historians years of research to guild the 3D model of the Ancient Rome. We also visited Altare della Patria (aka Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II or Il Vittoriano) a monument built in honour of the first king of a unified Italy, and Rome’s most beautiful fountain, the Trevi Fountain impressive statue of Neptune – the Roman god of the sea. We finished up at Quirinal Palace is a historic building and one of the three current official residences of the President of the Italian Republic, which garden only opens after June.