The Slow Road
Two Women Wandering the World
Sunset over the Ponte Sisto bridge and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica
The daily market we frequented in our neighborhood in Prati, where we repeated the house sit we did in 2017
Abundant produce in June
Grand turn-of-the-last-century apartment buildings in our Prati neighborhood
A church in our neighborhood
Our first day in Rome was the day of the city's annual LGBT Pride parade
The very modern parade passes the 1st-century AD Colosseum
View of Rome from the Gianicolo (Janiculum) Hill
A Baroque church on Gianicolo Hill
View of Rome's Trastevere neighborhood
A fountain in Trastevere
Summers are great for sidewalk cafes
The church of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Fragments of older stones in the facade of the church
Chris at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere
The church's 12th-century stone floor includes reused pieces of ancient Roman imperial purple porphyry
12th-century mosaics in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Ruins in the Forum of ancient Rome and a Baroque church
The Forum was the center of ancient Rome
Melissa thinks this statue of a Roman emperor looks like he's taking a picture with his phone
But the couple at its base seem unimpressed
Statues of Castor and Pollux at the top of the Capitoline Hill
Rome is full of Egyptian obelisks brought here for Roman emperors
The archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano is the second most important Roman Catholic church after St. Peter's Basilica
Devout people climb the "holy stairs" near San Giovanni in Laterano on their knees. The steps cover what are believed to be the stairs on which Jesus met Pontius Pilate, which were brought to Rome from Jerusalem by Empress Helena in 326 AD
Gardens at the Villa D'Este in Tivoli, outside Rome
