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I pictured myself sitting at a cafe, sharing illuminating photos and tapping my profound insights and observations into my laptop as locals strolled past, fascinated by the exotic American. Hey, I got back from Italy last week! I realize the internet has come to a standstill waiting in breathless anticipation for me to report back.īefore I left, I imagined I’d be keeping an online travel journal, blogging about the trip as I went. It involved graffiti and a picture of Octavia that said “Marcus Agrippa did this.” Author Chuck Posted on ApCategories Personal Observations of a Urine-Soaked Tourist
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More vacation pictures are up on Flickr, this set including the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, and the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.Īlso: while I was at the Pantheon, I kept trying to come up with a dirty joke about the HBO series Rome, but it never quite materialized. You can be standing in front of any of the tourist traps in the city, turn your head 90 degrees and realize, “hey, somebody probably lives right there.” Almost everything in Rome felt like people actually live and work there, coexisting with sights and monuments from the past 2500 years and, most likely the next 2500.Īpart from the Vatican and the Colosseum/Vittorio Emanuele area, there aren’t any huge stretches of land set aside just for show. Paris - like Venice, in my opinion - doesn’t feel like a real place, but a theme park. When I was in Paris, I was turned off by all the monuments, arches, fountains, and statuary: it felt ostentatious (which was the whole point), but cold and unnecessarily off-putting for anybody in the 21st century. And yeah, it is kind of a garish tourist trap - the part of Rome that feels most like Disney-fied Las Vegas - but I still dug it. I can only conclude that there are still ancient spirits inside.Īt the other end of the reverence scale is the Trevi Fountain, a bombastic display of excess and aqueducts that is perpetually overwhelmed with mobs of tourists. It doesn’t explain why you can walk into the building as a tourist in 2009 - one who’d been to Disney World, even - and still be struck dumb by it. But that’s the kind of info that impresses historians and people who write travel guides (and, I’m presuming, Renaissance engineers). And the dome is impressive in the abstract, as an engineering concept: we’re told that by the time of the Renaissance, people had lost the technology to build a dome like the Pantheon’s. Sure, it’s the best-preserved ancient building in Rome.
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More than anything else I’ve seen, it’s something you have to see in person to appreciate.Įven after seeing it in person, I couldn’t tell you what the attraction is. I’d seen pictures and video, and I’d read about it in travel guides and the like, but never saw what the big deal was. The highlight of Rome for me was seeing the Pantheon.