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Stuart At Castle of Julius II in Ostia. Our Hotel was in part of the castle walls.	Stuart More info about this castle here Castle of Julius II	National Museum of Rome This garden in the middle is the 16th century cloister built by Michelangelo. Click here for more info.	Statue In the Cloister garden thing!
Lizard Look a lizard as a tongue!! (It was a real lizard)	National Museum of Rome 16th Century Cloister by Michaelangelo	Statue People All over Rome there are these statue people who stand perfectly still until you put a coin in the collection tin.	Trevi Fountain One of my favourite sites in Rome (despite the crowds)
Pantheon The oldest domed structure in Rome, for more info click here	Tiber A view from one of the bridges over the Tiber	Temple of Hercules	Circus Maximus Today just open grassland but originally a hippodrome entertainment venue. On the left is the Palatine. For more info click here
Circus Maximus The building on the back is the imperial palace on the Palatine, now only a ruin but we had a guide book with a mock up of the original palace and it would have been a very impressive site indeeed!	Palatine Hill Ruins of the Imperial Palace overlooking Circus Maximus.	Ostia by Night! Click here for more info on Ostia	Piazza della Rocca Our Hotel room is on the right in the orangey bit! The original walls of the castle. I owuld definitely reccommend the hotel. Hotel link here.
Hotel Rodrigo de Vivar and the castle!	The moon Stu took this one because he could see the moon!	Stuart Standing at the entrance to the Piazza	Piazza della Rocca
Hotel Rodrigo de Vivar	Stuart At Ostia Antica	Stuart At Ostia Antica	Ostia Antica One of the best things we did in Rome. This is the inscription originally placed on the main gate.
Ostia Antica The port was just left to 'rot'. A lot of the ruins still have their mosaic floors which have stood the test of time.	Stuart At Ostia Antica. It took us hours to walk round just half of it! For more info click here	Statue At Ostia. For another good website on Ostia, click here	Stuart At Ostia Antica. The weather was glorious this first day!
Mosaic floor Another preserved mosaic floor, this one looks perfect!	Ostia Antica	Ostia Antica The Theatre at Ostia	Ostia Antica
Me! There's not many of these, I prefer to be the other side oeatre.f the camera! It was windy at the top of the th	Ostia Antica You can almost imagine how it would have looked before it was ruins.	Ostia Antica You can see a computer reconstruction of Ostia at www.ostia-antica.org/. When you look at how well preserved some of the ruins are you can see it would have made reconstructing the ruins almost easy!	Ostia Antica
Oooh Cheeky! I just couldn't resist this shot!	Ostia Antica More ruins.... We were reliably informed by a lovely Australian gentleman we got chatting to that Ostia ruins were better than Pompeii and there are less crowds (infact it was very quiet)	Stuart Videoing me, taking a picture of him videoing me...	More mosaic Another mosaic, this one was pretty!
Mosaic Clos eup of the pretty mosaic	Ostia Preserved painting, unbelievable that this has been here hundreds of years!	Ostia Antica Just a view	Ostia Antica The ruins stretched as far as the eye could see! You can see an aerial view at live maps (like google earth) by clicking here.
Stuart At Ostia	Outside the Colloseum If ever in Rome, negotiate a price first. These four pictures cost us 20 euros and that was just for our gladiator friend to pose with us for two minutes! Nice work if you can get it!	Outside the Colosseum	Stu & a gladiator Outside the colosseum
Stu & a gladiator He offered to cut his balls off if stu was a bad boy. Ooo-er!	Arch of Constantine Situated just outside the colosseum. For more info click here	The Colosseum It would take far too long to tell you about the Colosseum so click here for more information	Colosseum If you ever decide to visit the colosseum get your tickets from the Palatine Hill as the queue is shorter and the ticket gets you into both sites and the Palatine is worth a visit anyway!
View of Colosseum From the Palatine Hill	Arhc of Titus For more information click here	Stuart In front of the Forum	Stuart The Colosseum is behind him and the Palatine Hill to the right.
Stuart Looking over the forum and the palatine hill. Would you believe they were having a union meeting this day so we couldn't go in? Typical of our luck really!	Bronze statue of Caesar Overlooking his forum on the Ides of March. More info here.	Stuart Overlooking the Forum	The Tyrrhenian Fountain At the Monument of Victor Emmanuel II
Monument of Victor Emmanuel II A controversial building for many reasons and just our luck it was part;ly covered by a big white sheet so my photos are rubbish!	Monument of Victor Emmanuel II Click here for more info (and better pictures)	Monument to Victor Emmanuel II A statue on the steps	Stuart At Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Monument to Victor Emmanuel II I liked this building, you felt like the horse warrior things were about to take off!	Monument to Victor Emmanuel II Statue on the steps	Statue Person Stu gave a coun to this one to see what would happen. We have never seen anyone stand so still.	Take a bow She took a deep bow
Trevi Fountain For more information on this impressive fountain click here	Trevi Fountain Tucked away in little streets, it takes your breath away when you see it!	Trevi Fountain	Stuart In front of the Trevi Fountain
Me! In front of the Trevi Fountain. The manager of the hotel gave us an old coin to throw in. If you throw a coin into the Trevi you will return to Rome some day. I certainly hope so!	Stuart at Quirinal_Hill At the top of the steps is the home of the Head Of State of Italy. There is some other stuff up here too including one of the obelisks of Rome, for more info click here.	The Horse Tamers For more info click here	Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Stuart, pictures here are a bit blurry as I couldn't use my flash but we liked this place so much we visited it twice!
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Photo of the beautiful ceiling. For more info click here