Travel
New Year Start
1/3/2019
This year, I promised myself that there will be no resolutions, and yet. I have started 2019 with a trip to Rome. It was a well-planned trip, because we have known already in the beginning of 2018 that we'll have an opportunity to travel to the Italian capital with the whole family. Having been in several cities in the North of Italy, I have never seen Rome, and I have really looked forward to the trip for a long time.
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I went to the streets right after checking into our hotel Ponto Sisto, and was met with the first challenge. I started shooting pictures nonstop. Every street, every building every corner, window and door entrance looked like tiny piece of art perfect for a picture. Turning and twisting the streets of Rome are like an labyrinth of a history puzzle, and it became even more capturing after the sun started to go down.
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We stopped shortly at Ristorante Fiammetta to get a pizza and a glass of wine, and walked further to St.Peter's Basilica in the Vatican city. The story goes that Mussolini, was not happy about the drive to the square that surrounds the church, and ordered to remove all the buildings that were standing on the way to it. Now it appears as a perfectly symmetrical open space contoured by ideally architecture buildings on both sides.
The Basilica itself is the papal enclave and the pearl of Renaissance art in the Roman city. It took 120 years to build this masterpiece (1506-1626). Designed and decorated by famous artists like Michelangelo, Donato Bramante, Carlo Moderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and even Danish sculpturer Bertel Thorvaldsen, the Basilica is the largest church in the world and carries a special significance in the Cristian world.
The Basilica itself is the papal enclave and the pearl of Renaissance art in the Roman city. It took 120 years to build this masterpiece (1506-1626). Designed and decorated by famous artists like Michelangelo, Donato Bramante, Carlo Moderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and even Danish sculpturer Bertel Thorvaldsen, the Basilica is the largest church in the world and carries a special significance in the Cristian world.
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The next day the streets led us to see more churches a little Cafe Doria, to Pantheon and Fonata di Trevi, which Baroque style is voluptuous that you feel like a witness of a romantic movie scenery rather than an ordinary travelling tourist mom with a family.
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These cute small crooked streets led us to Colosseum, to more secluded piazzas, picturesque fountains and back to the hotel. As I went on, I could not stop shooting pictures, and than it occured to me that no matter how I try, I will never be able to capture it all. Rome was build over 28 centures, and compared to the other cities of Europe, it was not touched by the wars and disructraction. Rome was founded around 753 BC, and it was built on and on. When you pass the streets, you see buildings that have been built over the old stones. You see several architectural styles put over one another by one construction of one house. You also see several miniature colosseums, several miniature fountains, Baroque churches. Then you realize that you have a freedom to choose on what to focus, and my New Year's resolution came forward - focus on what matters.
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