March 14th

March 14^th

Today was a very busy day filled with lots of history and things to see. Rome consists of 7 hills today I visited Capotoline hill and the basilica that sits perched atop it. (Basilica is a fancy name for a church) I saw and visited the Capotiline museo or Museum. The museum is so big that I only got a chance to see half of it. The museum is neat for several reasons one of the reasons is that it is built around and on top of what used to be the first governmental offices. The square and the museum were designed by Michelangelo. For the first 1,000 years that Rome was a city-state it wasn’t very imaginative most of the works were copied from previous works that were made in Greece. After that lapse of having no imagination they became much more imaginative and instead of copying from Greece. Fontana di Trevi is a very famous fountain that is supposed to be simply spectacular at night. Trevi fountain was designed by Nicola Salvi and built in 1732-62. Although it is supposed to be simply spectacular, gorgeous beyond measure… it was pretty I’ll give it that, but maybe it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. I also saw the place where historians believe that Cesar was stabbed to death. I think that it is an odd coincidence that right after Brutus murdered his friend Julius the next emperors abused the power shamelessly.