Two days of wanderings around Rome

I don't really have anything lined up to see in this city of a thousand museums and churches. I'm not really bothered about climbing around the wreck of a Colosseum in 30 degree heat. I am waiting for the NZ$50 ticket to get me into see the Vatican on Thursday, and the one place I really wanted to see, the Borghese Gallery, is fully booked out for the next two weeks. This Sunday just happens to be a free museum day in Italy, so I am spoilt for choice of museums to see on that day. Even Tripadvisor has let me down. Most of their top 100 attractions are churches and basilica in all shapes and sizes, or really overpriced private tours of said churches and basilica. Soooo, for the last two days I wandered the streets of inner Rome looking for inspiration, but what I mostly found was perspiration and sore knees. It is a hard road finding the half way decent photo. The big disappointment for me was the Trevi Fountain, which is undergoing a 2 million euro facelift, and has been for the last 12 months. Well all I can say is "Nobody told meee" The bits where the scaffolding has been removed look amazing so when it is finished it will be once again a stunning sculptural masterpiece. The pride of Rome..

looking downstream at Tiber Island

The Ponte Palatino crossing the Tiber

ponte sublicio 1917

bridge here since 670 BC

12th century church excavation in Piazza Venetia

closer look at wall fresco

Teatro di Marcello built 11 AD

Ruins of the Teatro Marcello

A partial ruin

another partial ruin

and another

Arch of Janus 4th cent AD

Temple of Hercules 2nd century BC

unusual monument to 19th cent poet G.G. Belli.

a representation of one of his poems

street market in Trastevere

more market

500mtrs of street stalls

ending at the Basilica di Santa Maria piazza

basilica

another shabby-chic Roman building

when in Rome find some shade and sit down

didn't know it was another 1675 church

walking on scaffold above trevi fountain

Trevi fountain clean up

same

st. vincento e anastasio by trevi fountain 1650

spanish steps

too hot to climb them

side view of spanish steps

1627 fountain of the ugly boat

in front of the spanish steps

Column of the immaculate conception 1857

moses, david, isaiah, & ezekiel at the base