Day 7 - April 25, 2015: I Walk the Heart of Rome

I plan to expand this with further text later.  Cross your fingers that I actually will

Ruins of Palatine Hill from the Circus Maximus

And a bit of the Circus Maximus

Last glance of St. Peter's from the open top bus.

Campo di Fiori with Giordano Bruno watching over.

Just enjoying the flowers....

Piazza Navona, an art market on Saturdays

Fountain of the Four Rivers at the Piazza Navona

Rio del la Plata on the Fountain of the Four Rivers.  "Will you just get OFF OF ME!"

The Pantheon with another obelisk

Pantheon's doors stay closed on my last day in Rome!

Parliament with ANOTHER obelisk.  This is actually the one brought to Rome by Octavius after he defeated Anthony and Cleopatra.  It's set to work as a sundial.

Piazza Colonna.

Trevi Fountain undergoing restoration.  Story of my life.

Front door of Byron's residence in Rome which is across the street from

The Spanish Steps and the Keats-Shelly house (yellow house on the far side of the steps) where John Keats spent the last months of his life.

View from Keats' room.

Room where Keats died.  Everything originally in the room was burned by order of the Vatican as Keats died of tuberculosis (it was assumed this would stop the spread of the disease.  That is Keats' death mask in the case next to the bed on the wall.

And we end, where we began, at the Spanish Steps.  Not much else, packing and an early night. Gotta be outside the front door at 7am.