Trompe d'oil covered scaffolding (with advert)
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Colonna dell'Immacolata (Mary on a fat bull), near the Spanish Steps
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Me & Ernest, Spanish Steps
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Trompe d'oil covered scaffolding (with advert) on the Trintia dei Monti church, at the head of the Spanich Steps
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View back towards the centre of Rome, from the Spanish Steps
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View down Via Condotti (all designer clothes shops), from the Spanish Steps
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Night-dining (we later had lunch here)
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Remains of Hadrian's Temple (AD 145) by day
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Remains of Hadrian's Temple at night
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Coliseum
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Inside the Coliseum
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Inside the Coliseum
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The arena, Coliseum
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The arena, Coliseum
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Me at the Coliseum (you can clearly see how much lower the wall is on the side where the outermost wall was destroyed by an earthquake in AD 442)
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Arch of Constantine (AD 315), from the Coliseum
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Ernest siestering near Villa Celimontana on the Celian Hill.
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Water fountain in the gardens on the Celian Hill
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The bell tower of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (added by the only English pope - Nichola Breakspeare/Adrian IV in 1159), the Celian Hill
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The interior of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (pity the chandeliers weren't on)
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