Rome, Italy Day 2

We decided to do a few tours this week with a company called Context. Our first tour included an overview of ancient Rome and the original palace's and temples the Roman's had built around the 2nd century AD. These ruins we dug out over a period of 150 years and have become some of the most visited spots by tourists in the world. We walked through the coloseum and got a real indepth description of the different workings of that massive structure. We were told that the coloseum actually had battles with ships inside. They had such an elaborate system of acqueducts that they could actually flood the ground floor in bring in ships to battle to the death.

After our 5 hour journey around anceint Rome, we headed toward their newest gallery to get a view of the city from the top. 5 hours was surely not enough time to see everything, but is enough time to see a lot. The Gallery we headed to next was called, Mon. A Vitt. Emanuele II and Romans call it the White Cake, and they hate it. It's a beautiful building, with great columns and amazing bronze chariots on top. The only problem with it is that it is bright white. There is not another bright white building in view which makes it stand out quite a bit.

The view from the top of this building was amazing. Not only could you see forever up there, but you got a great idea of the vastness of the city. Rome is about 5 million people and they had 26 million visitors last year...needless to say, it's a big city.