2011 05 05 Colosseum from the upper level

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Date: 05.05.2011 04:51:14

2011 05 05 Colosseum lower level

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Date: 05.05.2011 04:26:04

2011 05 05 Roman Forum pano view from Palatine Hill

2011 05 05 underground in the colosseum
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Date: 05.05.2011 04:32:37

2011 05 06 Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli
Red columns were incorporated into the architecture of the Basilica, this was once the entrance to the Baths of Diocletian!
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Date: 05.06.2011 13:17:29

2011 05 06 Capitoline museum Dying Gual
230-220 BC Roman copy of 3rd century BC Greek original
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Date: 05.06.2011 19:33:37

2011 05 07 Borghese Gallery - Bernini - Pluto and Proserpina
The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622 - Bernini was 23!

2011 05 08 Catacombs of St Domitilla
The oldest catacombs in Rome. This is the 4th Century AD Basilica that was built partly underground above the tomb of the two martyrs Nereus and Achilleus

2011 05 08 Rome - Arch of Constantine at night

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Date: 05.08.2011 20:52:13

2011 05 08 Rome - Colosseum at night

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Date: 05.08.2011 20:43:22

2011 05 08 Rome - Hadrian's market at night

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Date: 05.08.2011 21:27:53

2011 05 09 Rome - Castel Sant'Angelo at night

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Date: 05.09.2011 22:45:00

2011 05 09 Rome - Pantheon exterior

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Date: 05.09.2011 09:29:37

2011 05 09 Rome - Ponte Sant'Angelo with Vatican City
The dome of St. Peter's Basilica rising above it all

2011 05 09 Saint Peter's Basilica - Dome

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Date: 05.09.2011 13:40:09

2011 05 09 Saint Peter's Basilica - Michelangelo's Pieta
Behind bullet proof glass
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Date: 05.09.2011 13:25:44

2011 05 09 Vatican City - Saint Peter's square at night

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Date: 05.09.2011 23:08:43

2011 05 10 Vatican museum - Faberge egg The Cock - Kelch Series 1904

2011 05 10 Vatican museum - Laocoon and sons
42 to 20 BC, unearthed near the site of the Domus Aurea of Emperor Nero (Nero's Golden House). The Laocoon Group - an ideal of art
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Date: 05.10.2011 14:18:05

2011 05 10 Vatican museum - Raphael's Rooms - Fire in the Borgo

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Date: 05.10.2011 16:16:46

2011 05 10 Vatican Museum Gallerie dei Candelabri

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Date: 05.10.2011 15:03:39

2011 05 12 Pompeii - fountain and water column with face of panther on Via del Vesuvia

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Date: 05.12.2011 12:51:22

2011 05 12 Pompeii - Men's bath - the steam room

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Date: 05.12.2011 16:19:51

2011 05 12 Pompeii - vineyards

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Date: 05.12.2011 15:18:09

2011 05 12 Villa dei Misterie - scenes show the mysterious rites of the cult of Dionysis

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Date: 05.12.2011 16:52:30

2011 05 13 House of the Faun mosaic - cat raiding larder
The wonderful mosaics from Pompeii have stunning detail and colors, you have to see it in person - pictures don't do them justice

2011 05 13 Ancient Mosaics
Column from the Villa of the Mosaic Columns, Pompeii
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Date: 05.13.2011 13:01:57

2011 05 13 from Pompeii - Perseus carrying sword and head of Gorgon with Andromeda
Popular theme in Pompeii - this is one of the best preserved
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Date: 05.13.2011 14:31:42

2011 05 13 Farnese cup - front
Naples Archeology museum - 2nd Century BC cameo cup of Hellenistic Egypt - 4 layered sardonyx agate
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Date: 05.13.2011 16:03:46

2011 05 13 Naples - Archeology Museum
Enjoyed the "Secrets" room immensely
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Date: 05.13.2011 12:19:16

2011 05 13 Naples - Fresco from Pompeii
Leda and the Swan - from Greek mythology where Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan
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Date: 05.13.2011 12:00:59

2011 05 14 Herculaneum - ancient boatsheds in the foreground, the modern city in the background

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Date: 05.14.2011 10:55:07

2011 05 14 Herculaneum
Hall of the Augustals - building where freed slaves met, dedicated to emperor Augustus
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Date: 05.14.2011 11:28:08

2011 05 15 Amalfi open bus tour
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Date: 05.15.2011 15:49:13

2011 05 15 Positano - Amalfi to Sorrento ferry makes a short stop

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Date: 05.15.2011 17:08:17

2011 05 15 Ravello - lunch at Villa Maria
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Date: 05.15.2011 14:01:21

2011 05 15 Ravello - villa cimbrone terrace

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Date: 05.15.2011 12:17:58

2011 05 16 Hadrian's villa
One of the 2 most important structures at Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) - the pool and grotto called the Canopus
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Date: 05.16.2011 14:52:50

2011 05 17 Orvieto Duomo
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Date: 05.17.2011 15:13:58

2011 05 17 Orvieto underground - dove cots
The underground was used for different purposes at different times in history
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Date: 05.17.2011 11:54:33

2011 05 17 Orvieto - at San Patrizio well

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Date: 05.17.2011 13:01:22

2011 05 18 La Foce panorama

2011 05 18 La Foce view
The estate of Iris and Antonio Origo
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Date: 05.18.2011 16:44:59

2011 05 18 Montepulciano - San Biago 15th century

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Date: 05.18.2011 13:00:06

2011 05 18 Montepulciano panorama

2011 05 18 Montepulciano
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Date: 05.18.2011 18:59:27

2011 05 19 St Antimo abbey interior
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Date: 05.19.2011 11:56:57

2011 05 19 Val d'Orcia fields of poppies and winter wheat

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Date: 05.19.2011 14:27:25

2011 05 19 Val d'Orcia panorama

2011 05 20 San Gimignano - the oldest towers

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Date: 05.20.2011 14:02:56

2011 05 21 Lucca - biking on the walls

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Date: 05.21.2011 16:30:11

2011 05 21 Pisa

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Date: 05.21.2011 12:20:24

2011 05 22 Venice - fishmarket - impromptu concert

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Date: 05.22.2011 18:14:21

2011 05 22 Venice - Grand Canal

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Date: 05.22.2011 12:30:44

2011 05 22 Venice - St Mark's Basilica
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Date: 05.22.2011 17:11:37

2011 05 22 Venice panorama 1

2011 05 23 Venice - classical concert rehearsal in the Frari Church

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Date: 05.23.2011 18:22:26

2011 05 23 Venice - Mask shop window

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Date: 05.23.2011 19:14:35

2011 05 23 Venice gondola convoy
I'm not getting the "romance" of this
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Date: 05.23.2011 21:31:47

2011 05 23 Venice Grand Canal at night from the Rialto bridge

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Date: 05.23.2011 21:23:14

2011 05 24 Venice - 4th Century BC Horses
4th Century BC horses inside the museum at St. Mark's Basilica - these guys traveled a lot - Constantinople until 1204 when Venice sacked the Byzantine Empire, removed to Paris when Napoleon took over in 1797, and back to Venice in 1815. The ones on top of the basilica are copies since the 1980's.
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Date: 05.24.2011 12:58:31

2011 05 24 Venice - golden mosaics inside St Mark's Basilica
Go in the morning when the sunlight makes the mosaics glow
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Date: 05.24.2011 12:13:19

2011 05 25 Venice - Peggy Guggenheim museum - enjoying the day

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Date: 05.25.2011 15:50:10

2011 05 26 Scuola Grande di San Rocco upper hall interior
Tintoretto - Adoration of the Shepherds and Baptism of Christ. Francesco Pianta carved figures along the lower walls

2011 05 26 Francesco Pianta - The Library
17th Century wood allegorical figures. Blind fury on the left (blindfold, wine flask and cannon) and the Spy on the right. A carved library in the middle complete with inkpot and glasses in the middle.

Italy Driving Route on this trip