Today is our last full day in Rome. The Pantheon and several of my favorite Piazzas were on our list of places to go today. We also need to get some shopping done for take home gifts.
The Pantheon is the closest you'll come to a perfect Roman building - one of Europe's best-preserved ancient buildings. The Pantheon was built by Emperor Hadrian between AD 118 and 125. No one really knows it's purpose - perhaps a temple to the gods or a place where rulers would glorify themselves. The Pantheon's dome is one of the marvels of Roman engineering. It becomes progressively thinner and uses lighter materials toward its top. The dome has a 39 foot oculus (hole) in the middle intended to allow those inside the building a direct look of the heavens. The Pantheon was consecrated as a church in 608.
I LOVE the piazzas (plazas) around Rome so we wanted to spend the day walking from plaza to plaza while shopping.
Piazza Novona is dominated by three fountains, a ring of ochre-colored buildings and many people: visitors, artists and stallholders.
Gelato is good any time of the day!. Don had 4 flavors in his cup.
Campo de' Fiori is the site of a wonderful outdoor market with stalls selling fruit, vegetables, flowers and fish.
As we were walked from piazza to piazza we came across this block of ruins. Rome is amazing!
Piazza Farnese
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