Crypts, Colosseum and the Forums!

We are getting to the end of the trip and feeling pretty good still, not too much vacation fatigue and also reading ourselves for getting back to the Astor.

The Capuchin Crypts

The Capuchin Friars were a reform movement, they were the Franciscans but were more strict.

They came to Rome in the 1500s, built a small church on Via Veneto. and decorated their Crypts with the bones of about 3,700 friars.

The Colosseum!!

We finally made it to the Colosseum. Well we came several times, but we were finally hare to talke the tour and see the underground where the gladiators would be shuttled from their practice arena to the big show. Enjoy... We did...

The elevator used to bring the animals in to eat the criminals in a public display. (Hmmm...)

Luckily we made it out and will live another day.

The Roman Forums!!

The House of Livia frescos from 60 BC.

The Barberini Museum

St. Mary Major Basilica

St. Frances's Tomb

Piazza Expositioni

Wine Tasting Event in Pigneto

Peru is all around us!!

The Carlos Biloti Museum in Borghese

We went to the Carlos Biloti Museum that used to be the Old Orangery. It had some nice modern art pieces from these guys, that is all.

St. Peters Basilica

We made our way to St. Peter's Basilica and after shooing away a skipper, we enjoyed the grandeur of the Basilica.

Michelangelo's Pietá

Bernini did the Baldacchino and the coat of arms on the pedestals. There are eight shields and eight faces. I have the first and last, the first one is a woman, calm. Each one gets progressively more distressed until the last one. That one's a baby. Look close. Oh and the bees!! Barberini bees are everywhere. That's the family crest.