Shopped til we dropped Day 2 in Roma


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August 4th 2014
Published: August 4th 2014
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Woke to Gry saying it,was 7:30am. Well we had only just gone to sleep at 3:30 so I wasn't sure what the panic was but ok, I fell back to sleep 😊 she tells me with my head in my hands.

Once awake we showered and headed out Leaving breakfast at the hotel there. our first stop was about 400 meters from our hotel which was the ruins of where Julius Caesar was stabbed. Pictures attached. Caesar was stabbed to death by a group of rival Roman senators on March 15, 44 B.C, the Ides of March. The assassination is well-covered in classical texts, but until now, researchers had no archaeological evidence of the place where it happened.

Now, archaeologists have unearthed a concrete structure nearly 10 feet wide and 6.5 feet tall (3 meters by 2 meters) that may have been erected by Caesar's successor to condemn the assassination. The structure is at the base of the Curia, or Theater, of Pompey, the spot where classical writers reported the stabbing took place. Following this, we headed to



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Caesar, the head of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of rival Roman senators on March 15, 44 B.C, the Ides of March. The assassination is well-covered in classical texts, but until now, researchers had no archaeological evidence of the place where it happened.


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