Terme di Caracalla, San Giovanni and Villa dei Quintili
Last week has gone by smoothly, working as usual, going out a bit, walking a lot… Towards the end of the week we went on with our quest to visit all of Rome.
Friday after work we went to the Terme di Caracalla, which were built between 212 and 216 after J-C. and could welcome 1600 persons at one time. What’s left of it now are huge walls, a few mosaics and that’s about it. It is impressive from the outside, but the visit as such doesnt bring much, specially since there aren’t any explanations to the site. Most of the tourists were french, probably the Routard is the only guide giving the site lots of stars ;)
Me in the Terme di Caracalla
Happy as ever :)
On the way home from the Terme, we stopped at the Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano, which is one of the most important cathedrals in Rome. It is indeed very big and impressive, with massive 7m statues greeting you above the entrance of the Basilica. Inside you’ll be blinded by the golden decorations everywhere and again see huge statues of saints.
The holy door of San Giovanni, one of four holy doors of Rome which get opened in a special ceremony once every 25 years by the Pope himself. Last time was in 2000.
Mark having a holy revelation in San Gionvanni ;)
On Satuday we set off for a trip to the Villa dei Quintili, at the far end of the Via Appia Antica. The ruins of this villa are the biggest preserved sub-urb roman villa, and to access it we had to take the metro and then a bus, taking us outside big Rome. The ruins themselves are spread in a big domain, with a small museum. It was very nice for our picnic, and getting out of town, but after having seen Ostia Antica it looked a bit… small... somehow. And very deserted, as not many tourists make the effort of going so far out for some old stones. But it was definitely nice for a day excursion in the countryside.
The Villa dei Quintili
Sunday, Mark was working the whole afternoon at the Palatinum, and I was just having one of those typical lazy Sundays, at least I went walking (accompanied Mark to the Colosseum and back)
Friday after work we went to the Terme di Caracalla, which were built between 212 and 216 after J-C. and could welcome 1600 persons at one time. What’s left of it now are huge walls, a few mosaics and that’s about it. It is impressive from the outside, but the visit as such doesnt bring much, specially since there aren’t any explanations to the site. Most of the tourists were french, probably the Routard is the only guide giving the site lots of stars ;)
Me in the Terme di Caracalla
Happy as ever :)
On the way home from the Terme, we stopped at the Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano, which is one of the most important cathedrals in Rome. It is indeed very big and impressive, with massive 7m statues greeting you above the entrance of the Basilica. Inside you’ll be blinded by the golden decorations everywhere and again see huge statues of saints.
The holy door of San Giovanni, one of four holy doors of Rome which get opened in a special ceremony once every 25 years by the Pope himself. Last time was in 2000.
Mark having a holy revelation in San Gionvanni ;)
On Satuday we set off for a trip to the Villa dei Quintili, at the far end of the Via Appia Antica. The ruins of this villa are the biggest preserved sub-urb roman villa, and to access it we had to take the metro and then a bus, taking us outside big Rome. The ruins themselves are spread in a big domain, with a small museum. It was very nice for our picnic, and getting out of town, but after having seen Ostia Antica it looked a bit… small... somehow. And very deserted, as not many tourists make the effort of going so far out for some old stones. But it was definitely nice for a day excursion in the countryside.
The Villa dei Quintili
Sunday, Mark was working the whole afternoon at the Palatinum, and I was just having one of those typical lazy Sundays, at least I went walking (accompanied Mark to the Colosseum and back)
posted by Jo at 1:47 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Jo! Really nice pics, Rome is still on my "to-do-list" of European cities ;-) Thanks for giving a taste of it! Take care, have fun...greetings,
K-ris
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