Roman Roamin' II

Another day's roaming.... By this time I had mastered Rome's Metro and bus systems and had purchased a week pass, allowing me to hop on and hop off all over the city.

Our campground--actually a camper-stop adjoined to a

camper storage site, more about which anon--is in southwest

Rome, a bit beyond the Laurentina station, in the EUR

suburbs of the city; the EUR, Exposizione Universale Roma,
was one of Mussolini's experiments in urban/suburban
planning, pushing Rome southwest of the old city; it was
to be home of the 1942 World Fair, but, alas, World War II
intervened; the EUR continued development after 1946 and
today is one of the city's newer if not nicer business/residential
areas

The Palazzo della Civita Italiana, EUR's major

landmark

Monument to the Universal Exposition Rome

that never was

Moving right along (on the Metro), the Circus Maximus, with

Nero's skyboxes overlooking (seriously)

The Piramide, a minor general's monument to

himself, an instance of Rome's 1st century BCE

infatuation with all things Egyptian

Driving past the immense Baths of Caraculla (been there,

done that)

Out on the Appian Way, the oldest and most famous of Roman

roads

Shrine on the Appian Way

The famous Domine, Quo Vadis? church

"Jeez, what are you doing here?!"

Another of the seeming hundreds of Egyptian

obelisks in Rome, this in the Piazza San

Giovanni; originally from Karnak, later in

the Circo Massimo

And, at the end of the day (before being stranded in the bus

strike), the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, oldest and most

important of the four papal churches in Rome (or anywhere in

the Roman Catholic world), officially, the Mother Church,

seat of the Bishop of Rome, aka, the Pope; it's way old, going

back to Constantine