Pictures of 06.29.00 -- Rome Day 3 – Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps

We started the day by taking a phone booth picture ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290001 as we walked to the Pantheon ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290002 outer walls through the outer doors ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290003 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290018 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290019 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290020 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290021 that are 1800 years old and up to the sky ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290004 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290006 and some pictures of the interior ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290005 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290007 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290009 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290010 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290012 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290014 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290015 including us ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290008 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290013 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290016 and the holes ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290011 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290017 where the water goes.
Once outside, we took pictures of the facade ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290022 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290023 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290024 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290027 including the ancient Roman ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290029 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290030 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290031 and the structures across the street ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290025 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290026 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290028 and headed off to lunch.
On the way to lunch, it started to rain and the restaurant was not yet open ( some people think we used our friends at the Vatican from yesterday to bring on the rain ) so we went back to the Pantheon to see whether the rain does come in through the hole in the roof. ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290032 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290034 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290035 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290036 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290037 and onto the floor ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290033 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290039 The photographer ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290038 did a marvelous jobs of capturing the droplets of rain as they made their way down.
After lunch we began our walk to the Trevi Fountain through this beautiful street ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290040 that was supposed to have the best chocolate in Rome (which unfortunately was closed). At the Trevi Fountain, we recorded the structure ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290041 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290042 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290043 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290044 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290045 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290046 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290047 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290055 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290056 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290057 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290058 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290059 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290065 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290069 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290071 as well as ourselves ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290048 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290049 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290050 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290051 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290052 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290053 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290054 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290061 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290062 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290063 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290064 doing the coin toss shuffle and the water itself ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290060 curiously it stopped raining just when we got to the fountain (as though arranged by our contacts who made it start to rain so that we could see the Pantheon both ways) We also took some gratuitous pictures ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290066 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290067 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290068 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290070 of the ground and the man with the video camera.
Next we began our pilgrimage ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290072 to the alleged site ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290073 of the finest gelato in all of Italy. This man ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290074 spooned it out ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290075 including licorice flavored that was a religious experience ( where else but in Rome ). He even took the obligatory picture of us ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290076 enjoying his wares.
Next we went to the Via Veneto where we saw this gentleman ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290077 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290078 holding forth in a cafe near these steps ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290079 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290080 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290081 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290082 which imitate the Spanish Steps. We later discovered that he was a waiter at the establishment and that these were not the real Spanish Steps but we did see Jane's middle name ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290083 on the way ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290084 to the real thing along with this sign ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290085
At the real Spanish steps, this was the view from on top ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290086 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290087 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290089 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290091 and this is how the steps looked ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290088 and here was the skyline ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290090 This was the view up from the bottom ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290092 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290093 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290094 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290096 along with the view at that level ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290095 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290097 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290098 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290099 We walked around the bottom but Jane was disappointed ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290100 because Georgio Armani was closed. We took a subway home ../../../Sabbat/Pics/06.29.00RomeDay3--PantheonTreviFountainSpanishSteps//P6290101 and managed to avoid the pickpockets.