Thursday, 28 February 2013

Rome with a guide

Another day, another walk. This time with a friend and a professional guide, Silvia. We did my everyday paths but paying attention to details, finding new, listening to the historical context. So far I've been too lazy to read anything (as I should have), but it was just much more pleasant to listen to Silvia.
And so I discovered:
* Oratorio del Gonfalone, a hidden, reconsecrated church with frescoes of 16th century (next to Via Giulia)
 * Small plates in front of the houses in the Jewish district commemorating inhabitants deported in 1943
* Apartments above the Teatro Marcello (how can one live there?)
* A deer head on the top of the church of Sant'Eustachio (?!)
* Signs of levels of previous floods at the walls of the basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva

And many others.
I should pay more attention where I walk.

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