The Pantheon,Campo de Fiori, and a cozy dinner in Trastevere 088

The oculus at the top of the dome. The dome is the first use of its kind of lightweight concrete, my engineer husband tells me

The Pantheon,Campo de Fiori, and a cozy dinner in Trastevere

April 3rd 2008
It’s another of our sightseeing jaunts back into Rome in the afternoon after the conference session, and Tim and I make our way from the shuttle drop-off at Piazza Venezia to the Pantheon. On the way, we come to a cordoned off half of a city block known as the "Area Sacra" - it is an ancient ruin right in the middle of a bustling block of bus traffic, taxis, scooters... all the city noise a metr ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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