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Published: January 14th 2008
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Church in sunset
This church looked great in the evening light Various photos
While in Rome I have taken some photos that I can't really fit into the other blog entries but I'd still like to share with you. These I post here and I hope you enjoy them.
I can write a little about the photos.
The photo of the church is not much to write about. It just looks nice in the evening rays of the sun.
The second photo is of the Palatine, mentioned on the first
Rome entry of the blog. This photo I took a few days after my first visit there. I went there mainly to take a photo of the
Circus Maximus. Circus Maximus was once a large sports arena but today there is little evidence of that left. If you don't know what it used to be you can easily dismiss it as a modern day park or something. But the ruins of Palatine sure look good from this direction and that makes me want to post the photo.
In the glorious days of the Roman Empire there were several large bathhouses erected in Rome. Terme di Caracalla was one of the larger of these. It could take several thousands of
Palatine and the Circus Maximus
Palatine are the ruins in the background. In the foreground is the Circus Maximus, once a grand sports arena now an arena shaped grass field guests at the same time. Today there are only ruins left though. But what ruins they are. Big and imposing so it is easy to see what a great bathhouse it was in the old days.
Over the centuries many great artists have lived and worked in Rome. Raphael and Michelangelo are the two best known names. But there were several others. Two names that are often mentioned are Bernini
and Borromini. I shall mention them more in the next entry of the blog but now I am going to post a photo of Bernini's bust of Christ.
The National Museum of Pasta would have been fun to visit but it was closed for the time being. Bummer!
In the EUR district there are several examples of Italian fascist style architecture. I can only repeat what I wrote in the first Rome entry of the blog. Fascism is a totally despicable ideology, but the fascists sure knew how to create nice buildings.
I hardly believed my eyes when I found a graffiti from 1627. There was actually yet another graffiti from the 17th century further away but I couldn't take a photo of that one. Writing
Fountain
There are hundreds of nice fountains in Rome. This one is on Piazza Navona your name at a place you have visited is not a new tradition. People have probably done that as long as humans have been able to write. And before that they probably made pictures. Wonder how many of the old cave paintings and rock engravings that have been found all over the World that really was nothing but graffiti...?
Since I am a math teacher I just have to publish the photo I took of the painting of
Pythagoras. How many times have I not taught my little students that in a "right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle), c, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, b and a—that is, a² + b² = c²".
I have walked around the streets of Rome quite a bit these last days. Walking is a nice way to see cities in generally and Rome specifically. The distances in Rome are not very big so walking is a good alternative to public transport. It is a very beautiful city too, at least if you like old buildings, and there are interesting things to see just about everywhere. So walking
Terme di Caracalla
Terme di Caracalla were once a great bathhouse. Today the imposing ruins still stand as a reminder of the old days also makes as a good way to do sightseeing.
While doing all this walking I have noticed two things that are specific for Rome compared with other cities I have been to.
First there are all the fountains. You can find them everywhere. Every square has at least one and in many street corners there are also larger of smaller fountains. Many of them have drinkable water too. I know that the water is drinkable in most of them but still the thought of drinking it totally freaks me out. I wonder where this passion for fountains comes from. It is a nice passion though. It gives the city of Rome character.
Second are all the columns. I might have mentioned them before but not the fact that they are so many. In just about every square there is a column with a statue or a symbol of some sort on top of it. I guess there are maybe a hundred or so scattered around town. Just to give you an idea of what Rome really looks like I throw in a few photos of columns here.
I have mentioned before that Rome is so packed
No! Not closed! It mustn't be!
What a great disappointment. The National Museum of Pasta was closed when I went for a visit. I really wanted to see that and I am not joking. with tourist sights that nobody can even bother to care about the lesser ones. The aqueduct on the photo is not even noted on my map and the basilica on the photo is indeed a wonderful piece of architecture and also crammed with wonderful and priceless art. But it gets far fewer visitors than it deserves simply because there are more famous art in other churches and there is a much bigger and much more impressive basilica (St Peter's Church) a few kilometres away.
I have also thrown in a few other photos in the end. I hope at least they are remotely interesting to watch. Most of them I can't really add any information about because I simply don't have any.
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Grammar and dance
One graffitto more graffitti. Juh. Och Pythagoras sats är utmärkt för dansare, som gärna vill veta hur många steg de har möjlighet att ta på diagonalen på en scen. Det var min anledning att lära mig den (förutom att det var en gammal grek som kom på den, då).