Happy Birthday to sister Ruth. Busy day for us. We got a ride from our beautiful Hotel Capri (sure hated to leave) to the ferry.
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| view of our lounge from upstairs |
Arrived in Napoli around 10:15 and got a cab to Napoli Centrale. Caught a train to Rome and after a couple of hours we arrived at Termini. We walked to our hotel as it is only a block away. The hotel has a booklet of walking tours so we went out to do a short one. Stopped at Maria Maggiorre, a church that appears to be a slightly smaller version of St Pete's, complete with a bronze altar and the Sforza Chapel by Michelangelo and a loggia full of medieval mosaics.
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| Interesting stained glass window in the church The eye and pyramids seem quite heathen for a christian church |
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| bronze altar designed by Michelangelo |
We saw the Palazzo Borgia where Lucrezia lived with her sinful father the pope.
We walked through the House of the Knights of Malta and that was way more than Rick had signed on for so I returned him to the hotel and did the second walking tour.
I went to the via Quattro Fontane - four fountains at the crossroads and from there in each direction you can see one of the three obelisks and the Porta Pia by Michelangelo. I stopped to shop for water and gelato on my way back to hotel.
We were wandering down our Via Cavour wondering what to eat and stumbled upon a second L'Archetto restaurant we of course we stopped to have pizza and spaghetti carbonnara for Rick. Pretty good but not as good as the one at via Archetto near the Trevi founatin.
One more day in Rome and then we head home via Paris for a day.
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