Hi Bloggers
I’m sharing a few photos of Porta San Paolo in Rome.
I was looking for a post office to send my family some postcards, and I walked by this ancient gate.
According to wikipedia, it “is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy.”
Gate was originally named “Porta Ostiensis” (Latinate).
The road out of Rome went through this gate to Ostia (the beach town I spent some time at).
Later, it was renamed “Porta san Paolo”, because it led to St Paul Basilica outside the walls.
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This is an ancient Roman pyramid - which I’d never previously heard of!
This is the Pyramid of Caius Cestius. His tomb.
Built around 18-12BC, so incredibly well preserved.
A lot more information on wikipedia, for example:
A 18th century etching of the pyramid.
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Grafiti.
So much of this trash on Roman buildings. đĄ
Good to see something different than the normal tourist destinations in Rome. Shame about the graffiti, would be a full time job taking it off, then someone would come along and ruin it again.
ReplyDeleteRome was already thick with graffiti when Jenny and I last went there in 2002. Such a shame that it often ruins lovely old buildings. I'd never heard of that pyramid, it's remarkable. You wouldn't know it was a tomb.
ReplyDeleteGraffiti is a plague everywhere, it seems.
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