The Forum- Oy the tourists! The ruins of the Temple of Castor and Pollux.
Augustus' Forum, I think? Fragments in a wall of one of the builidings of the Campidoglio.
Borromini's magnificent St. Ivo. The courtyard of the Cancelleria, where cardinals live (including Ratzinger). The architect is unknown.
Renaissance, Medieval, and Baroque, all in one corner! Hydrangea in the Campus Marzius, petals turning white in the sunshine.
A mosaic archway and the nympheum of the Villa Guilia, the airy 16th century palace that Pope Julius the III used not as a residence, but just for a day or an evening of entertainment.
More Renaissance symmetry of the Palazzo di Firenze, which houses, most appropriately, the Dante Alighieri Society.
San Agostino. Its stunning Renaissance facade was built with travertine plundered from the Colisseum.
Vicolo means alley.
A portion of the medieval mosaics in the tiny chapel known as the garden of paradise, in Santa Prassede. The woman with the square halo (for living saints) is Theodora, mother of Paschal I (d. 824).
The charming tortoise fountain of the Piazza Mattei.
I decided to put myself on a diet, but I've only lost lots and lots of time!
A medieval home of a Jewish family (there are Hebrew inscriptions inside).
Santa Cecilia, demonstrating the typical Roman palimpsest: 18th century facade over a medieval portico, 12th century campanile and at the bottom, the top of a classical marble vase. Do you want to guess how many photos I have that look practically identical to this one?
