Rome (part 1 of 2) (Unidentified building, mostly)

[feng_shui_house]

Is it just me, or is LJ REEALLLY slow right now?

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[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Actually looking at them closer 3 Is the Arch of Constantine ( http://www.citrag.it/archi/page/arches/e_f_ar_ro.htm) and 4 is I think the Arch of Septimus Severus which can be seen in the same article. And I'm pretty sure I'm right the last one is Trajan's Column.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Thank you for researching! I never knew what they were at the time.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I've been to Rome twice, the second time far more recently than you. I was there first in 1969 and the second time in 1987. We went on a very good coach tour of Rome, the first time, which covered everything you put up in infinite detail but it was just too hot to get out of the air conditioned coach (110 degrees F) so I have no photos of them. In 87 Beth and I went for a week in Winter and walked Imperial and early Christian Rome Guide book in hand and had a whale of a time seeing them all again the other side of the glass. What I remember most about the Forum was the number of cats all fed by Italian mad cat ladies living in flats to small to have any pets so making pets of the wild ones.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I remember the cat-ladies! For the most part, they were little, stout women in black dresses, and you'd see them walking along with a bunch of cats running up to greet them.