Rome

July 2007

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This is Victor Emmanuel II monument, which was a huge building in the Piazza Venezia that we constantly called "the Napoleon building" because we didn't know what it was at first and it reminded us of a statute of Napoleon on a horse. I'm sure any Italians that heard us were horrified. We did eventually find out the name though, no thanks to our still-missing guidebook.	The Colosseum at night. It looked smaller in person from the outside than I thought it would, and larger in person on the inside.		Taylor in front of the Colosseum.
Jackie & Miles (we look pretty ragged because we'd only been in Rome a few hours, and were worn out from the flight.)			Detail of the Victor Emmanuel II monument by day.
And more of the monument, with lots of scaffolding. The horse & rider in the center of the photo are 12 meters high by 10 meters wide.	Dome of a church.	Looking out at some ruins along the way to the Colosseum.
The Santa Maria di Loreto church.			Not a cow. As you can see, this is a map. But if you squint at it from across the street, in the dark, when you're very tired it looks like a cow.