Trip to Italy and Greece

Rome

Assisi

Assisi is a small town built on large hills. Home to St. Franchise  and to this Ancient temple of Minerva (which I thought was the best part of the town)   which the Christians have change into a church.  Beside that there is the great views from the town out over the countryside, but be for warned if you go to Assisi you will climb a lot of steep hills.

Welcome to the city founded by Romulus on April 21 , 753 B.C.E. Rome was the capital of the Roman empire and the center of the western Roman civilization . The photos here are of the ancient Roman forum which in fact Caesar himself walked through.

These last three columns are all of what remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux to honor the two demi-gods for helping the Romans at the battle of lake Regillus in 499 B.C.E.

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