Here's some pictures from our mostly closed Sunday late morning/afternoon walk around east Rome. The first set is from Santa Maria Maggiore.
This is not the gate for Santa
Claus, but instead for the
Saints.
The ceiling of the church. It's
not as impressive as the others
we saw, but it was built in
AD 432, so let's enjoy a nearly
1600 year old ceiling even if
it doesn't have amazing
paintings.
One of the mosaics.
Another mosaic.
Part of the altar canopy.
Part of the facade. For a
fuller view, see the video
in the next post below.
Mary at the top of the obelisk
in Piazza Santa Maria
Maggiore.
The dome.
Okay, this picture is from across Piazza
della Repubblica from the church.
Why are Vespas much cooler in
Italy than anywhere else? And
how about those colors!
Both the Baths and the
Michelangelo Church.
On to the Piazza de San Bernardo, the Fountain of Moses, some churches, and the Quattro Fontane (four fountains).
I'm not lion -- this is just one of four
lions with the Moses Fountain. While
he didn't personally build it, Pope
Sixtus V had it built. Calling the next
Pope Sixtus "Pope Sixtus the Sixth"
must have sounded weird.
(Spoiler alert: There was no Sixtus VI.)
There's Moses, commanding
water to come forth.
Two of the four lions. And a taxi company.
And a fast food place renowned for their
Italian food.
One of the four fountains.
The second of the four fountains.
The third of the four fountains.
You'll never guess which one
this is! Well, it could be the
first if that's the first one you
saw as you came to that
intersection.
Look at the Baroque facade on
the Church of San Carlo alle
Quattro Fontane. Peak waves
of Baroque, with the famed
oval at the top. This church
was designed by Borromini,
the most famous of Bernini's
apprentices. The two later
became fierce competitors.
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