The Scudder Family: Rome~July 4th~Part Four

Friday, July 4, 2014

Rome~July 4th~Part Four

Campo de' Fiori ~ by day, the site of Rome's best known open-air market (since 1869). It's just diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della Cancelleria.

Altare della Patria (National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II or "Il Vittoriano) is a controversial monument built in honor of Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy. It was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885. It wasn't completed until 1925. To date, the Vittoriano is the largest monument in white marble Botticino ever created.

John & Granddad

The Insula Romana is a building dating back to the 2nd century AD, at the base of the Capitoline Hill & close to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. At one time, it was five floors high.

Ancient remains of the Insula Romana

Capitoline Hill, with the facade of Palazzo Senatorio and a replica of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. Capitoline Hill is one of the seven hills of Rome. It was the citadel of the earliest Romans.

John

Santa Maria in Aracoeli (Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven) is the designated church of the city council of Rome.

The replica of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

Granddad & me

The Roman Forum is a rectangular forum (or plaza), surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum. For centuries, it was the center of Roman public life: the site of processions & elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials &gladiator matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragment.