Je suis alle a ROME !

Welcome to Roman Empire !

ROME

The thing about Rome is very historical. You may want to know more about Julius Caesar, Rome empire, Artist like Michelangelo, Picasso, and many others. 

Rome has the free tor, called new rome free tour, you may browse in: http://www.newromefreetour.com/nrft/FreeTour.html. When in Rome, our first destination was Fountain of Trevi, where it is famous for the wishing fountain. It is very beautiful and they have the free water. Yeay! Rome is very generous of it’s water, so make sure you don’t forget to bring your drinking bottle. 

 Make sure you bring coins here to make a wish. Beside, you will have a great look for your picture throwing the coins. :)

            If you travel by yourself with tight budget, you can use the hop on hop off buses for entire 12 hours to city attraction, and enter only the one that you attracted to. Or, ask for city map, and you’ll have the attraction on your maps. You can go to each attraction by metro. They offer you 100 minutes with 1,50 euro or a whole day metro with 7 euro. The must see places are *according to me are the Vatican city, and also the Colloseum. 

            As you arrive in Vatican city, there are many agents that offer you “skip the line” to Vatican city, and if you are youth, below 26, you can get reduction. Well, for me personally I was okay to get the service, because they tell us many things instead of just wandering around the museum itself. It cost me 35 euros to get to the Vatican city and also the Cistine chapel. It was a nice tour, and you get to see many things and you’ll understand more about the art history. Apparently, only the European students and also those who taking the art classes that will understand more, because they told us many things about Michelangelo. Well, at least I learned something new there, and the guide was such a storyteller, that you may use your imagination to picture her stories. The chapel is a sacred places, where you need to cover your shoulder, and also your legs above the knee. It is also forbidden to take pictures with flashes, because it may vanish the paintings. The guard there didn’t seem to care because there were many people taking pictures there using flash. It is for the heritance sake, so please, if you are going there, be respectful. Not only in Rome, in any other places as well.

            

 Vatican city is guarded by the Swiss Guard, young one if I may say. It is said that they are the future pope that voluntary guard the city. FYI, vatican and rome is a seperate country. 

The papal Swiss Guard in Vatican city is now the only extant swiss guard. They were previously Swiss soldiers who have served as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century.

And here we go inside the cistine chapel. there's this one picture that you can see from any angle that keeps on point at you.

            Colloseum was another story. It was a 3^rd floor building where it was used for an arena for human battle against beast animals. It is also used as an exhibition for exotic animals. The barbaric environment was still there, and I still can imagine the horrible battle. *Probably I watched too much movies. hahhahaa.

 Peek inside the Colloseum. It was a stadium for battle and exhibition of exotic animals. Here I attached the story behind the 'games'.