21.10.09

The day started with very nice wheather that stayed with us all day long.We arrived in Rome by train and the rest of the day walked around the city in odrer to see it as well as possible in one day. Having wandered on the streets of this beautiful city and haveing bought some of the souvenires we went to lunch to McDonald’s. Patrice offered it to us as a reward for all the extra jobs that we did. It was very nice of him. After a fast food lunch we started the cultural part of the trip and we visited most important and wonderful sights of Rome. Our first sight was the famous Trevi Fountain. There is a tradition of throwing some small money into the waters of this fountain and to make a wish to come back once again to Rome. From Barberini square we went to the Pantheon. We learnt that it was constracted by Mark Agrippa – a Roman emperor to worship five roman gods, that’s where the name comes from pante means five in Latin. Today it’s a catholic church with a wonderful architecture. You can visit there the important graves like the last two kings of Italy and the grave of Raphael. The church has a very interesting construction. The doom is the biggest in the world without any support. In addition the is a large hole in it so when it rains the water comes inside and it’s collected in big reservoirs under the floor. From there we walked through the governmental district with important ministers and the parlament palazzo chigi. Later we have some free time to do some shopping’s. after that we went to Piazza Venezia to see the National Monument. It is the representation of the highest patriotic Italian values and tourists are strictly controlled to respect them. There is no food, no screaming, no running :). We went upstairs as high as it was possibly to admire the magnificent view of the eternal city. It’s difficult to describe the beauty of this place with words it is splendid, you should see it yourself! ;) After Alexandra showed us 2 famous statues and after that we went to Coliseum. Unfortunately we did not go inside, but we could see it outside. It is difficult to imagine how a building like this could be build without modern technologies. Is name comes from a huge statue of Colas which was standing in front of it before. We bought some souvenirs there, than we went back to Roma Terni. On the train station Alexandra bought for us some meals and it was our dinner and we had in train during the way to Spoleto. This day was very long and full of interesting things and events.