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Tag Archives: Trajan’s Market
Senza funghi, per favore!!!
Today I took the opportunity to run around and track down “old” stuff. We found remains of one of the oldest ancient warehouses. It’s just down the road from the Testaccio. I wonder if the people here take for granted the giant arch fragments attached to their apartments, or standing in their courtyards? Continue reading
Posted in Rome
Tagged ancient, Aventine Hill, Cloaca Maxima, Colosseum, fragments, Italian, Palatine Hill, Pons Fabricius, Roman commerce, Tiber Island, Trajan, Trajan's Market, warehouse
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The Eternal City
I’m now in the Capitol of the Empire until Tuesday morning… I finally found THE best gelato in the world! Giolitti’s – kind of between the Trevi Fountain and the Piazza Navona neighborhoods… I hiked up a very nice, tree-lined street to the church of St John Lateran. It is the oldest christian church standing in the world – built by Constantine himself in the late 3rd century… Continue reading
Posted in Pompeii Food & Drink Project Redux, Rome
Tagged Augustan, Augustus, Capitol, cat sanctuary, Colosseum, Constantine, Empire, Flavian Amphitheater, forum, Giolitti, Isis, Iulius Caesar, Palatine, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Pompey, Pompey's Theater, Republican, Senate, Suburra, Torre Argentina, Trajan's Market, Trevi Fountain, Via Cavour
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