Five times to Italy but only once to Rome, part three

At the top of the Spanish Steps

The Spanish Steps are beautiful at the top and crowded at the bottom.  It was morning and from what I understand, the worse time to sight see because the tour buses come, drop people off and collect them after lunch.  But we had things to see and we were out there with them.

I'd have stuck my head in the Camper shoe store in the Piazza di Spagna, but I was thirsty and thinking about the fresh-squeezed orange juice available in every street café.  Unfortunately we sat down outside a place on the main route to the Trevi Fountain and paid €6.

David's photo of the Trevi Fountain looking
like a scene from Mystery Science Theater 

It's pretty, but the crowd at the fountain was so dense we left, promising ourselves to come back after dark.  We snapped a few pictures and moved on to the Pantheon via the Piazza Colonna.  The Column of Marcus Aurelius (sometimes called the Colonna Antonina) is magnificent!

Marble victory column of Marcus
Aurelius at the Piazza Colonna

Giuseppe Vasi's 1752 etching of the
Piazza Colonna