Today the centigrade was at 39.5 degrees at 5 o'clock... Justin and I were both hoping it would hit 40,as we'd never seen that,but no such luck....until we got on the bus, then it was oficially over 40 degrees and HOT (104)! Anyway, today we went to the Piazza Del Popolo, which has a huge,ancient obelisk in the center, which Augustus I brought back from Egypt. It is about 3,200 years old! After that we hopped on a bus which took us to our FOURTH Olympic Stadium this trip. It had a cool track that was surrounded by Roman Gods, but looked like a rundown baseball stadium in the Bronx.
Then we took the metro and a bus to visit the San Callisto Catacombs; there are 4 levels, but the one we took a tour of is 12 meters underground and really interesting to see. While at one point there were about 500,000 people buried in them, less than 10% of those remains exist today -some have just disappeared from the thousands of years they've been there, but other graves were looted when Rome was in wartime situations. So,in other words, most of the graves we looked at were empty today. There were about 10 popes buried there at one time,plus there are still beautiful frescoes that can be seen in the walls, as well as altars. It was unique!
Those 2 tasks took us most of the day,and now we're headed to the pool. Tomorrow we catch a short flight back to Germany....back to the land where people stand in organized lines to buy things, and the trains run on time!
Ciao! C & J
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