Day 3

I was right about that long day coming! Today would consist of visiting the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Vatican and the Pantheon. Before I can grasp the amount of walking we were going to do, I needed to have a good breakfast. Surprisingly, the breakfast at the first hotel was the best, much appreciated given how are day was going to be. To continue, we take the bus to the Colosseum and when I first stepped foot on it, I was intrigued to see how crafty the Romans can really be. I thought to myself how could a structure like the Colosseum be so beautiful if it was used for brutal entertainment, but it was a part of Roman culture so I’ll just go with it. The Colosseum also had a good view of Rome from up top. So much that you can see the Arches of Titus and Constantine. After the visit of the Colosseum, the tour guide showed us the Roman Forum or what was left of it. The architecture was nice, but I thought it would have been more preserved. Since those were the first ancient sites I’ve seen I’ll say it was good to look at. Moving on to the museum tour of the day, we visited the Vatican. The Vatican is well known for housing Michelangelo’s famous sistine chapel. That was definitely the highlight of the day, but it was very hard to concentrate on the art work because of the obnoxious security and plus it was crowed, but I could not have been any more pleased with the artwork I seen. Last but not least, the Pantheon. At first I thought the Pantheon would have been the same size as the Parthenon, but I learned that the two had different purposes. The Pantheon is complex in architectural form, but thats about it. It mainly housed some more Renaissance art but nothing major. The Pantheon was worth seeing and plus it didn’t require much walking, if anything you can see everything inside by just sitting down. The Pantheon pretty much served as a closer for that big day so I’ll see what will await me next.