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The Road Report Rome: Around Town February14, 1999
Here are your basic assorted sites around Rome.... I have seen a lot of the city on this trip although I've been avoiding the plague here like the plague! Word is that 7 million Italians have it and 7 Jesuits at the Gregorian. I prefer to return to Manila (I head back tomorrow) germ free. Here are some pictures with less that professional tour guide commentary.
Your basic tourist activity: put your hand in the well cover-- if you're honest you won't get bit.....	There was a long like of tourists trying this out.... here's my favorite shot!
Temple of Venus (good for Valentine's day), a car and your basic Roman Fountain.	This temple was pictured in my Latin primer in high school-- I used to know how to say "The wretched farmer crossed the road" and other useful Latin phrases.....
A small colleseum-- the big one was covered with scaffold as is most of Rome. I even saw three Jesuits who were covered with scaffolding in preparation for the Jubilee in 2000.	Your basic triumphal arch-- a small triumph, this one!
One from column A, one from column B	The Church of the Gesu.... one of the Jesuit Churches in the city-- this one contains the tomb of Ignatius-- really spectacular in a Baroque kind of way.
Trajan's column.... Rome's answer to the comic strip.	The sanctification of flag pole sitting.
Did you know that the Romans invented LEGO?	Not to mention the Staten Island Ferry.....
...and the tootsie roll-- this was an early prototype which proved too large to wrap!	The Palazzo Venezia-- Mussolini used to throw things from the balcony here onto innocent passerbys-- mostly cats, biscoti, and bags of warm water....
The fountain of Trevi.... actually a water main broke in the sixteenth century so they built the fountain around it so no one would notice....	The nice man who built the fountain.... he was an angel!!
The Castle San Angelo.... a favorite hiding place of the Popes when the Barbarians were in town for the weekend.....	The inventor of San Miguel beer.....
Bernini's sculptures topping the medieval bridge that tourists crossed on pilgrimages to St. Peter's (sorry, it's late and I ran out of funny things to say).....	One last look at a forum-- containing a quorum.....
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