Italy 2003

Trajan's Market, Rome 05/31/2003 Poking around in the shops	Trajan's Market, Rome 05/31/2003	Trajan's Market, Rome 05/31/2003 Lots of nice pieces just sitting around.
Trajan's Market, Rome 05/31/2003	Trajan's Market, Rome 05/31/2003 Looking up at the house of the Knights of St. John	Vittoriano, Rome 05/31/2003 Looking over the ruins of the Forum of Caesar
Colosseum, Rome 05/31/2003 Just stepping out into the middle of traffic on early Saturday evening to look past the Basilica Maxentius to the Colosseum. I love just coming around a corner and seeing the Colosseum up ahead!	Forum of Nerva, Rome 05/31/2003 We had to climb behind the grandstands along the Via dei Fori Imperiali to see this colonnade in the Forum of Nerva, which made the numerous police of various denominations quite uncomfortable. The frieze is of women in various domestic occupations. It was done in Phrygian purple marble.	Forum of Nerva, Rome 05/31/2003
Cleto Restaurant, Rome 05/31/2003 We stumbled across this restaurant Saturday evening, and had a great time. It's at Via del Cardello, 28, Fori Imperiali ang. V. Cavour. The owner (right) and a friend sing to the customers. We liked the food a lot, too, and had our second excellent restaurant encounter with Americans at the next table. This time we were actually the more experienced Rome tourists, as it was a brother and sister in Rome for the first time, and only for a couple of days. We explained how the buses work.	Basilica Nova, Foro Romano, Rome 05/31/2003 AD 306 Maxentius - 313 Constantius, great earthquake of 846	Foro Romano by night, Rome 05/31/2003