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Favorite Thing: Well, I guess the single most important site I would take someone in Rome would have to be the Colosseum..............simply because most people think of Rome and the Colosseum in the same thought.

There is a kind of atmosphere there that is not found in other places (or is it just me). I could hardly take my eyes off the innards of the monument and could just about hear the screams and shouts of those involved in any of the activities that were conducted there. I guess it ultimately ended in death for many people and animals..............maybe that's what lingers here.

BUT........ a very impressive building none-the-less.

Fondest Memory: My first trip to Rome (1998) saw my daughter meet up with us .......... she was doing a worldwind tour of x number of European countries in x number of weeks and landed in Rome the day before we met up.

It was lovely to share the day with her (so far away from our homes) and interesting to have her also trying to figure out what all of the old rocks were.

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Favorite Thing: The Castel S Angelo definitely gets my vote for an important site to visit. Maybe it is that because it is so close to S. Peters that people might be either to anxious to get there, or too tired to continue having been there. So maybe the idea would be to set aside the day to really look at this monument.

Fondest Memory: It is really hard to say what I miss most away from Rome because there is so much that I have enjoyed there and much that I would still like to see and do.

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Favorite Thing: Continuing on the Rooftops series from Castel S Angelo

Fondest Memory: I love this monument.

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Favorite Thing: St Peter's Square would have to be among those sites that I would consider to be a must see, and I would definitely take them there given opportunity.

Fondest Memory: So many memories, dreams, fantasies and photographic opportunities...........all are missed when I am not in Rome.

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Favorite Thing: Although in Italy nearly 5 months in 1998, I didn't make it to St Peter';s Square and in 2001 I almost missed it again.......How come?

Well on the first occasion that I got to that part of Rome I was overtaken by an urge to visit Castel S Angelo...........which after all is just down the street. Well why didn't I go then......well it was because I spent so much time in the Castle that in order to catch the last bus in Formia, I needed to catch a specific train to connect.

Fondest Memory: I was absolutely dumb founded at the first sight of S Peters and probably didn't do the area photographic justice, but anyway.................

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Favorite Thing: The Forum Borium otherwise known as the cattle market is another ancient Roman building situated on a busy road near the mouth of truth. My thoughts on this site went along the lines of 'why so tall?', but then all of the buildings of an ancient nature were all taller than what was needed don't you think? They wouldn't have traded or slaughtered giraffes or elephants (?) would they? There again, maybe they did, who knows?

Fondest Memory: I really miss walking around, looking at all of the ancient buildings and ruins and daydreaming about how the people lived then..........what their lives may have been like on a day to day basis etc.

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Favorite Thing: Given that the "Mona Lisa" is a very small painting considering its huge reputation, I didn't think it unusual that the wolf (yes THE wolf) was tiny too. Huh!

Don't worry, I did see the real thing albeit while it was having a thorough going over and a bath.............behind a glass wall...........

Fondest Memory: I definitely miss the excitement of seeing these things, monuments, statues etc that I had known to be in existance but had never seen before.

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Favorite Thing: Highly decorated and far removed from the pine box and even now we are considering some bio-degradable type of home for bones.

It must have taken them just ages to decorate these and it never ceases to amaze me that in some instances it can be 2000 years after the event and the packaging survives.

Fondest Memory: This one in the grounds at the front of the National Museum in Rome.

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Favorite Thing: is particularly ordinary don't you think?

Of course this would most probably be the most important site to be seen in Rome. Well this and St Peter's square, I would think. It would be interesting to find out which monument or place statistically is the most visited in Rome............then in Italy......... I am sure that this would have been done at some time..............?

Fondest Memory: Well it is a magnificent city that keeps calling you back............don't know why, it just does.

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Favorite Thing: of the Via Appia -- A roadway to end all roadways................ or was this meant to influence all roadways into the future?

Fondest Memory: I don't yet have a photo of the Via Appia as it starts (or finishes) its journey out of Rome, but this photo is of the remaining section in
Terracina -- such as it is.

See my Italy travelogue as The Via Appia sneaks its way into VT through my pages.

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