After finishing up at the Pantheon we walked started walking east on our way to Trevi Fountain. I just love all the little streets. There are amazing things to discover around every turn. I feel that if you lived your whole life in this city you would still never get to see everything. I could walk around forever or until my feet fell off.
Not sure what this is all about, but I like it for some reason.
This is The Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius.
Inside we were amazed to see this amazing fresco painted on the ceiling by Andea Pozzo some time after 1685. He did excellent job of using perspective and foreshortening to create an effect of three dimensional objects. Sue was convinced that there were actually sculptures of the people on the ceiling.
Here we are at Tevi Fountain. Very impressive, but there was a huge croud of people here and that was kind of anoying. It's really hard to take in the essence of something when people are bumping in to you and screeming at kids.
This is the National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II who was the first king of a unified Italy after 1860. Before that the Italian peninsuala was a mix of several differnt independant states. The project for this monument was started in 1895 and finished in 1935.
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