Roma: Day 1
I recently spent four nights in Rome on honeymoon with my now wife Maria, I took a load of photos (read 300) and we managed to visit a plethora of different sites within the city so I thought that I would split this up into three parts (one per day of the trip).
Monday 5th June was our first full day in Italy’s capital, the night before we had decided on which sites we would visit, we started out by heading towards the Castle Sant Angelo. On the way there we stumbled across the Column of Marcus Aurelius an impressive column, similar to Trajan’s, which detailed his campaigns across the Danube. Its amazing how often we happened across these random historical sites while in Rome; they are everywhere! Finally arriving at the castle we discovered that it didn’t open on Mondays, a spanner in the works, to add to this there was a massive yellow crane in front of it making any photographic opportunities null and void. However the bridge of the same name (Pont Sant Angelo) was very impressive, if a little crowded (pictured below).
Next we planned to take a walk to the Vatican, only a few minutes from the castle, The square was still set up for a service as the Pope had been outside on the Sunday, the mass of empty chairs and huge space of the square made an excellent subject.
Having more luck this time St Peter’s Basilica was open and after a bit of queuing and security we had a wander around inside this very impressive church (pictured below). After meandering around the church we headed back out towards the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel, however the queue to get in was so immense it would have taken us the rest of the holiday just to get in; we turned away and had some lunch at a small café nearby instead.
Finally that day we managed to get to the very busy Trevi fountain, it was in a smaller square than I had imagined and was rammed with tourists and street vendors trying to sell random tat to the aforementioned tourists. After barging through the crowds the fountain itself was very impressive to look at. I took a few shots here but they weren’t as good as the night shots I took the next day (which will feature in a later post). Below is the fountain in black and white and without any people, not any easy thing to do when you are crammed in like sardines!
The full galleries containing all of my shots from Rome can be found here and here.
Monday 5th June was our first full day in Italy’s capital, the night before we had decided on which sites we would visit, we started out by heading towards the Castle Sant Angelo. On the way there we stumbled across the Column of Marcus Aurelius an impressive column, similar to Trajan’s, which detailed his campaigns across the Danube. Its amazing how often we happened across these random historical sites while in Rome; they are everywhere! Finally arriving at the castle we discovered that it didn’t open on Mondays, a spanner in the works, to add to this there was a massive yellow crane in front of it making any photographic opportunities null and void. However the bridge of the same name (Pont Sant Angelo) was very impressive, if a little crowded (pictured below).
Next we planned to take a walk to the Vatican, only a few minutes from the castle, The square was still set up for a service as the Pope had been outside on the Sunday, the mass of empty chairs and huge space of the square made an excellent subject.
Having more luck this time St Peter’s Basilica was open and after a bit of queuing and security we had a wander around inside this very impressive church (pictured below). After meandering around the church we headed back out towards the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel, however the queue to get in was so immense it would have taken us the rest of the holiday just to get in; we turned away and had some lunch at a small café nearby instead.
Finally that day we managed to get to the very busy Trevi fountain, it was in a smaller square than I had imagined and was rammed with tourists and street vendors trying to sell random tat to the aforementioned tourists. After barging through the crowds the fountain itself was very impressive to look at. I took a few shots here but they weren’t as good as the night shots I took the next day (which will feature in a later post). Below is the fountain in black and white and without any people, not any easy thing to do when you are crammed in like sardines!
The full galleries containing all of my shots from Rome can be found here and here.
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