So during one of our days in Rome, Mary and I were sitting waiting for one of our tours and she asked me what I was thinking about and here was my response "I'm thinking about if I built my own fountain I'd want there to be seats all around it because I love just sitting on the fountains and I would tell people, beacuse my fountain will be a big deal and a big tourist attraction, I will tell them never to put railing around my fountain so everybody could enjoy it...and I'd also put foot recliners so you could just relax"...random I know but this day in Rome really showed me how much I love fountains!!
Day 40 - Our second day in Rome went a little something like this...We started off at the Spanish Steps which had a ton of steps (shocking right?!), a beautiful site of Rome and we bought some artwork from a local artist. Next we headed to the Barberini Plaza which had a really cool fountain of Triton spouting water out of a conch shell and fish underneath him…sounds weird but it was a neat fountain (see picture below)! Afterwards we walked up the hill (one of the 7 here in Rome, learned that yesterday!) and found this intersection with four fountains and one of the corners had a neat little church inside of it which apparently can fit into one of the piers of St. Peter’s...just goes to show how big St. Peter's is and how small in comparison this church was.
Next we headed to the Trevi Fountain which of course I threw in my penny so I have to come back one day! I was reading that the God Neptune is the guy standing in the middle with two tritons on the side with horses which symbolize the two conditions of the sea. Although filled with a ton of people it was so nice to just sit by the fountain, feel the cool water and just relax…the fountains are probably one of my favorite things here in Rome, also because you can drink out of them, Ancient Romans know what’s up with their free water!
Next up was the Pantheon, which has tombs of Roman kings and the artist Raphael. Later we headed over to the Plaza Navona which was another favorite of mine because it had another neat fountain (yay!) and some gelato!
Afterwards we tried to see the Botanical Gardens across the river but it didn’t work out so we headed back towards the Trevi Fountain so we could get some good dinner (which we did!) and see the fountain at night!
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