Outside the Walls

Today we set out for the baths of Diocletian. Unfortunately 3 police officers recently died in Rome, and there was a huge funeral going on in Sta. Maria of Angels and Martyrs, which was were we were going to go. So we ended up going to the Aula Ottagona instead (or at least for longer than planned). It was a cool octagonal building, with an oculus on the top. There was some strange geodesic dome on the inside which created an interesting contrast to the old building.


After that I went back to San Carlo Quattro Fontana with Bridget and Brianne, I had been on Monday night on a walk i took around the city, but it was very interesting to see how different it looks during the day. It felt much more open, and obviously light. The first picture is at night and the second is during the day.



We had to meet up with our group to start the studio part of our day which consisted of walking around 2 more sections of the old Roman wall. The two portions we walked around today were very interesting. The first took us by Santa Croce (which houses splinters from the cross) and San Giovanni Lateranno which is the official Cathedral of Rome. Santa Croce also has an organic monk garden which wasn't open but I plan on going back to. It is really interesting to see the difference between the inside of the Roman walls and what lies on the outside.

The second portion of the wall took us through a beautiful park (as well as some dumpy parts of the city) and we ended up on the Via Appia, which was the old road that connected to the south of Italy. Now it is a one way street. We walked up it to an old gate, and then headed back to Rome. Brianne, Bridget and I decided to hoof it back and ended up walking by the Baths of Caracalla, but we didn't go in. We did take a little rest in front of the ruins though and ate some delicious almonds. My feet are really tired though, it was nice to get off of them finally.


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