The Jewish Ghetto and Italian Soccer

Sunday morning we were up bright and early (since we were off schedule wise anyway) so we ventured out for a stroll along the Tiber river.

A view of the Vatican.

Rome is covered in art and most of it is related to the Catholic church.  In Salt Lake along some of the freeway underpasses they've put depictions of winter sports for the 2002 Olympics.  In Rome along the Tiber River there are depictions of how some of the apostles were killed.  Gruesome most of the time like this one being crucified upside down.

And here's the small Tiber Island which was often used as a prison or quarantine for sick people.

And inside the small church San Bartolomeo d'isola it was just as ornate as every other church we saw.

We headed to the Jewish Museum after this and I couldn't resist snapping the Jewish minions picture.

And Taylor in a yamaka too.

Although over 100 years old, this Jewish synagogue is a baby compared to all the other churches in Rome.  Still really neat to hear the history of Jews in this city.

Every street you turn on there's some new ruin and something amazing to see.  Every time I'd say to Taylor- so what's that?  It must be something old and historic, but really there's just so much history there.  This one turned out to be the Temple of Apollo.

And this was another very old greek god's church.

And again another.

Staying in our bed and breakfast right downtown made it so we could live like the Romans.  We went out early and explored and then came home to siesta and then had energy to venture out again each evening when things cooled down.  One of the things Taylor really wanted to do in Rome was go to an Italian soccer game.  So after a rest/nap we caught an Uber cab and went to see a Roma vs. Lazio match.  We didn't realize that both teams actually use this as their home stadiums because one is the city team and one is the county team, so really we hit rivalry weekend.  And it was great.

Lots of cheering and screaming in Italian.  Lots of good people watching.  And lots of smoke in my face.

It all took place in the Olympic stadium and even though it's a modern building, they left some of the original pieces they have saved... just a random huge eye that's probably 3000 years old or something like that.

A pretty cool day.