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| Lunch at Ristorante Al Cardello
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| We decided to have lunch at Ristorante Al Cardello, an unobtrusive
restaurant at the corner of two alleys. This is a panoramic image.
| The restaurant is tiny. This photograph shows its extent. There's one
table in each corner--that's all there's room for. It seats twenty at
most.
| "Antipasto alla romana." Roasted vegetable appetizer, Roman-style.
These were clearly freshly roasted, hot, and good.
| Scaloppine alla zingara. Scaloppine with mushrooms in a sauce made from
white wine. The veal wine sauce was very good, and Di Yin's favorite
dish of the meal.
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| "Strozzapreti ai funghi porcine e gamberetti": pasta with mushrooms
(although the menu says porcini, I think these were shiitaki) and
shrimp. Spicy noodles in shrimp juices. My favorite dish of the meal.
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| More Rome
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A stitched panoramic picture of Trajan's Column.
I'd see casts of this in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (see
1,
2,
3).
| The Victor Emmanuel Monument. My it has a lot of statues and reliefs!
| A 150-degree panoramic movie of the front of the Victor Emmanuel
Monument.
| Straight-on.
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| Hey, what are you doing bothering me when I'm about to get in the tub?
| Count the mythical creatures with wings. (There's at least five.)
| More Roman ruins, these going many levels deep. These date to the first
decades of the second century.
Also, if you look closely, you can
see a faded fresco of Christ in the alcove in the upper-left of the
picture. It's probably old as well.
Artificially brightened.
| The Aracoeli Steps, which are nothing special, lead to Santa Maria in
Aracoeli.
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| Looking up the Cordonata toward the Piazza del Campidoglio. The statue
on the left is Pollux; the right, Castor. Also note the bird on
Pollux's head.
| Summoning forth powers from beyond the depth.
| Atop Capitoline Hill, the Palazzo Senatorio, as seen from across the
Piazza del Campidoglio.
| Ibid, looking across the piazza to the Palazzo Nuovo, now a museum.
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| A painter overlooking the Roman Forum. He's doing a good job.
Excellent for its self-referentiality.
| A high-resolution photo looking eastward down into the ancient Roman
Forum. The nearby row of columns is the Temple of Saturn.
Artificially brightened.
| An excellent panorama of the Roman Forum. From left to right:
the Santi Luca e Martina church (dome), the Arch of Septimius Severus
(harry potter name inspiration?), the Temple of Saturn, the Temple of
Antoninus and Faustina (distant building with columns), and various
low-lying ruins that I won't bother listing.
| An excellent picture of me by the Roman Forum, with the Temple of
Saturn in the foreground and the Santi Luca e Martina church in the
background. I like this picture so much I claimed it and as you can see
uploaded it with my set. It's typical me: standing in front of an
amazing site, guidebook in hand.
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| We stumbled on the Mercato di Campagna Amica del Circo Massimo, a local
farmers market. (I didn't photograph anything in particular here; this
is just a picture to document our visit.)
| Alongside the Palatine, an ancient Roman site where emperors lived.
It's adjacent to the Forum.
| A stitched photo showing one section of the Palatine.
| Trajan's Markets, like mostly everything else here, built in the first
two centuries C.E.
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| Ruins along Trajan's Market with Trajan's Column in background and
further grand Roman buildings in the distance.
| Marcello Plaza, an attractive building we happened to walk by.
Artificially brightened.
| Trevi Fountain is an elaborate, extensive scene. We knew as we
approached that it was something, as we saw crowds six people deep
around it.
Artificially brightened.
| A high-resolution picture of the statues in the center of the fountain.
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A panorama showing the full extent of Trevi Fountain. It's impressive.
Sorry the image in one segment of this panorama is fuzzy.
| Another shot focusing on the center of the fountain, in case the earlier
one didn't come out.
| One of the many pedestrianized streets radiating from the fountain.
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We passed a bookstore with gorgeous old books and looked inside.
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| Snack at San Crispino Gelateria
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| The non-descript side-street with San Crispino Gelateria, the most
famous gelato shop in Rome.
| The shop's entrance.
| In San Crispino Gelateria, they keep the gelatos covered to maintain
them at the pristine state and and proper temperature.
| Grapefruit sorbet: phenomenal. Subtle, just tasting of grapefruit but
with no bite.
Basil gelato with alcohol: the basil made this a bit odd, but I could
nevertheless tell the quality of the cream base.
Hazelnut gelato: good.
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