Weekend in Rome.....

I thought it'd be a good idea to just walk along the Tiber River, and it turned out to be an especially nice thing to do as it was a clear blue, sunny day in the low 70's!  Oh yes!  We started off at Campo de'Fiori which was one of the liveliest and roughest areas of medieval and Renaissance Rome.  Cardinals and nobles mingled with fishmongers and foreigners in the piazza's market.  Each morning you can expect to find vendors selling their produce at the lively morning market.  We purchased some fresh fruit as sustenance for our long walk.

I took my best pictures this day, but unfortunately deleted them by accident!  I was able to return to many of the places we visited on the weekend and so, I've attached those today, however, we never returned to the market at Campo de'Fiori.  (That will explain why it's cloudy, even rainy in some!).. Pictures that I have are of my walk down to the Trastevere area where we visited Santa Maria and Santa Cecilia as well as the Jewish Ghetto where we had one of our best meals which consisted of procsiutto wrapped around fresh cantaloupe, bruschetta, and fried artichoke! all so yummy....washed down with red wine, of course.

Me and my dd in front of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.  St. Cecilia, aristocrat and patron saint of music, was martyred here in AD 230.  After an unsuccessful attempt to suffocate her by locking her in the hot steambath of her house for three days, she was beheaded.  

In front of the altar is a delicate statue of St. Cecilia which is based on sketches made of her perfectly preserved relics when they were briefly disinterred in 1599.

"Those visiting once those passing through, and even those arriving on vacation all know fro the very first that they will return.  Rome is not easily forgotten.  You will know it by its colors, its smells, its noises even blindfolded  The perpetual charm prevails over the chaos, the smog, the disorganization, the noise, ....... Unequalled anywhere in the world for its works of art, it is, first and foremost, ancient Rome.  The sense of majesty stuck the great artist Giorgio De Chirico profoundly.  After a brief period of study in the capital, he wrote that "in Rome the sense of prophecy is more exensive.  A sensation of infinite and distant greatness."

Fino a domani!