Rome, Italy
via Memphis, TN--USA!
Piazza Barberini, Piazza Repubblica, Trastevere (with pharmacy!)
Our last day in Rome was a pretty chill day. We started off with a metro ride to Piazza Barberini. There isn't really much to this Piazza, but there is an excellent pizza place in the square. We decided to file it away for later.
From there, we walked to the Piazza Repubblica. We tried to visit the Diocletian Baths, but they appeared to be closed, much to my dismay.
Santa Maria degli Angeli church where Galileo proposed his theory of the sun as the center of the universe. You can see the stained glass dome with the planets here.
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore where Barberini is buried.
After this, we tried to find the Opera House, but got lost. Instead, we wandered across a cheap grocery store and picked up some stuff for later. From there, we headed back to Piazza Barberini to lunch at the pizza place we'd seen. It was very tasty! I <3 mozzarella and tomato pizza. Yum!
Then we hopped back on the metro to our hotel to drop off our things. We hung out for awhile reading some books and resting. Then I decided we should really do something constructive with our last day in Rome. I consulted the guidebook which indicated a church with a pharmacy attached in the Trastevere district!
Naturally, we headed out that way. The desk girl at our hotel also suggested some places to visit while we were there. This is her favorite area of Rome. We visited the church, but the pharmacy did not open again until late afternoon. We visted another church then decided we needed some gelato. We searched for one that the desk girl had told us about but were never able to find it.
Eventually, we headed back to the square of the church we had visited second and got some gelato at Blue Ice. I believe that of the chain gelato places, this one is the best. We sat by the fountain and ate gelato.
Then we went back by the pharmacy of the church. It was really pretty and decorated with stained glass and paintings of different medicinal plants.
From there, we decided we would head back to the place we had eaten dinner the day before. After dinner, we went back to the hotel and got our things ready to head out the next morning for the airport and the flight home.
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