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St. Peter's. We went to the top of the dome.
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St. Peter's fountain
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Me inside the dome, climbing to the top
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Me on a tiny spiral stair near the top
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St. Peter's dome from the roof
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The lantern on St Peters, we went to where the railing is in the middle
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The Pope's sheild
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Inside St. Peter's looking up at the dome
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A dove in St. Peter's
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Me touching St. Peter's toe
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Today we went to St. Peters. St. Peters is the house of the Pope. It looked like a huge dome with a house shaped bottom. I saw columns in the courtyard. There were saints on the columns. We went inside and got tickets and climbed up all 528 steps to the very top of the dome. I saw a huge garden with a really cool shield made out of flowers. Then we went back down into the church. I saw lots of statues. I touched St. Peter’s toe. It was shiny because people have been touching it for 20 centuries. I stood on the very spot where the holy roman emperors were crowned. It was made out of red granite stone and it was a circle.
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Me on the 128 steps to the front of the church of Ara Coeli
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Me inside the church of Ara Coeli
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A tomb on the floor of the church
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A view of the Pantheon from the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II
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St. Peter's from the top of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II
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Me in front of a chariot driven by an angel
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Me in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier
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Me next to a giant toe from the house of the emperors on the Palatine hill
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Ruins on the Palatine Hill
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More ruins on the Palatine Hill
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Today I went to the Church of Ara Coeli by climbing 128 steps. I count a lot of things in Rome like steps. I liked it because of the marble tombs in the floor of the church. They looked like statues but made into the ground. Next I walked out of the church and took an elevator to the top of the Vittorio Emanuele II monument. I saw St. Peter’s and the Pantheon, which looks like a bowl upside down from above. I walked to the Pallatine hill. It was a bunch of old ruins.
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The Pantheon
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The dome of the Pantheon
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Inside the Pantheon
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Me on the base of a Pantheon column
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Me with angel wings (and a reflection of the Pantheon in the window)
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Pantheon pigeons
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An elephant sculpture near the Pantheon
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A trick perspective at the Palazzo Spada. The sculpture is only about 2 feet tall.
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A cat on a scooter
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A cat on a car
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Today we went back to the Pantheon. It was a short walk. The Pantheon was pretty cool. Then we went to the art store, and I got lots of paints. We went to a museum. It had lots of paintings. One of them was the painting of King Herod’s warriors killing babies. It was sad. In the museum, there was a statue that looked big but it was actually small. My dad told me it was a trick with perspective. I had my favorite lunch at Aristo Campo, fried chicken with pesto on a thick bread.
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Me keeping track of popes' shields
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One of the popes' shields
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A famous battle with Constantine painted on a wall
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The School of Athens by Raphael
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Today we went to the Vatican Museum and I counted the popes' shields. I found 1050 keys, bees, doves, arms,dragons,and writing tablets.I saw the last judgmint it was a paiting of the end of the world.
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Me drawing in Montepulciano
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A street in Pienza
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Siena
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The campo in Siena
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The cathedral in Siena
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This weekend we went to Siena. We stayed in Siena for three days, and saw a lot of churches and buildings. The church in Siena was only black and white. The black meant evil and the white meant kindness. In Siena what I liked to most was playing in the campo. The campo was a huge a bowl. We played ball tag with my friend Jackson and Maeve and George and two Italian kids.
We also went to Pienza. There were lots of fountains. I had a huge bowl of pesto. I put balsamic vinegar on my pesto and all the Italian waiters couldn’t believe it.