Living in Rome

Cruising through Roma, we stopped at Pizza Re' on the Corso for a bite.  The tiramisu was wonderful! 

A block from Pizza Re', we visited a cathedral.  Built in the 17th century, it looks new and the artwork is, well, check it out.

This is a historic balcony,  This was Mussolini's residence when he was dictator of Italy, and he made most of his speeches from this balcony.  Go to U Tube and check out some of his orations and you'll see this spot.  The building opens to a vast piazza where tens of thousands of Italians cheered The Duce until he started losing the war.  Then, not so much.

This head of emperor Constantine is 10-15 feet tall from chin to brow.  It was discovered in 1494 and has been in the Capitoline Museum ever since.  It was once part of a huge statue carved in the 4th century.

This is a famous statue of the she-wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus, the twins that founded Rome.  The wolf was cast by the Etruscans around 509 BC...the ankle biters were added about 2000 years later. 

An equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum.  Cast while he was alive in the 2nd century AD, it used to be completely gold plated.  Quite a bit of gold remains.  To avoid weathering, the statue is now indoors.

A bust of the emperor Domitian.  History describes him as diligent but autocratic and paranoid, and frankly he looks quite nervous, I reckon.  His paranoia was not without justification...he was whacked by members of his court in 96 AD.  He was popular with the army and the common folk, but not with the Senators.

Clouds billow above Il Victoriano, the massive marble mountain in central Rome.