Tag: Italy 2025
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Brown Bear
Taken at Bioparco di Roma – Rome Zoo.
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Scarlet Ibis
Taken at Bioparco di Roma – Rome Zoo.
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Cape Penguin
Taken at Bioparco di Roma – Rome Zoo. I don’t think penguins can help but looking comical to us!
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Peacock
Taken at Bioparco di Roma – Rome Zoo. There were several peacocks and peahens wandering around. They make such an irritating noise though, don’t they.
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Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain is one of the places you just have to visit when in Rome! And there are so many good ice cream shops in the vicinity!
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Trajan’s column
An impressive piece of work by anybody’s standards.
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Teatro di Marcello
Built in Julius Caesar’s time, and so pre-dating the Colosseum, this theatre is on the edge of the Jewish Quarter, giving it an alternative name of the Jewish Colosseum. It seems that much of the structure was buried for centuries and has only recently been excavated. There is still a lot of restoration work going…
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Et tu, Brute?
Archaeologists say this is pretty much the exact spot where Julius Caesar was murdered on the Ides of March, 15 March 44 BC. The title is a famous line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, when he sees one of his supposed closest friends Brutus lining up to stab him. It was my O-Level set text in…
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City bus
All the buses look clean and smart. It’s quite impressive.
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Red flowers
You come across all sorts of little gems walking the streets of Rome.