. . . . . out. Gosh, what a lot to take in. Too much for my brain and feet to take. Everywhere you look there are what anywhere else would be really significant sites. Here they are squeezed between a road & apartment block. That means that what they do make a fuss of is special.
The Colosseum is just awe inspiring. 60,000 to 70,000 capacity it knocks any stadium I’ve been to into the ground. The arena looks so small, the seating so high, and you have to remember you are standing on the concourse with all terraces that would have been above you gone.
The Palatine Hill, The Forum, Farnese Gardens can’t match it but is still wonderful. I can’t get over that it has all survived. It hasn’t been lost or buried and then rediscovered it has all just always been here. In the middle of a major European city. Ignored. Left alone. How?