Behind Campo De Fiori

The tale continues.

Back to Castel Sant'Angelo, going in to see, up...up...up... and what a magnificent view!
Puta da Maquina! Won't turn on...
Pissed off I descend to the gardens sitting in a bench on the shade, trying to solve this big problem. Right in front of a gorgeous ragazza and her mother!
I fix the camera (SD card) take down some notes in my map, kill the rest of the 5€ fanta. And I find myself being talked to, it's the ragazzas mother. I asked her to talk in english but, no dice.
Poor me, reached my palms to the sky and shrugged my shoulders. The girl seemed embaraced and gets up and leaves, mother follows, and i stay the same. Ok... another episode.
Ponte Sant'Angelo and alleyways to alleyways i lose myself, and find myself again in Largo Octavio Tassoni. Well... since I lost myself till here, i'll go to S. Giovanni Dei Fiorentini. Ok, Seen, away.
To Piazza Chieva Nova and COrso Vittorio Emanuele, through the museum, left to the alleys and see myself in Piazza Navona.
Beautiful, full of life, good artists, portraits on the street, exceptional.
I take my good time gliding and admiring the life of this square.
Palazo Madona to Pantheon by Piazza Caprettari, i'm again next to a monument.
Comming back another way to Palazzo Braschi, at the edge of Piazza Navona and doen to Piazza S. Pantaleo and Campo De Fiori (I found it Pedro)
Another gorgeous square, and another spot to keep. Piazza Navona and Campo De Fiori, and it's in-betweens.
Palazzo Farnese and Palazo Spada, nothing to declare. They're nice, they're there.
And behind Campo de Fiori I find the cosy Buffeto 2, on Piazza Teatro Delle Pompeo.
Where I sit scribbling on the spianata. Quickly presented with a napoletana and a coke. "grazie"
Eat, write, and I'm soon between beautiful italian women. Laughing, talking, eating, smoking. And I scribble some more, but this moment was mentioned before. I pay and leave.

"Sigo primo al vaticano"

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Back to Rome.

I follow down Via Del Corso, lots of stores and street vendors. Many beautiful people and something turns my eyes, something before my predefined destiny, and I turn without thinking. Via Antonio Canova... sounds good. And at the end, there it is! Instituto Di Belle Arti. Doesn't show on the maps, but it called to me. Beautiful, with political messages, right in the stile of the demented artists.
I start to look for Mausoleo Augusto, but the place is under maintenace...circling the place there are some interesting monuments. A museum in Ara Pacis, glassed so we can the the exhibits from outside. Which is quite good, cause it saved me the ticket and disapointment. What a prety shitty exhibit.
Roaming north to Ponte Nenni. I got to go see it, reminds me of sweet Francesca (nicknamed Nenni).
I come back the same way and cross the river Tevere through Pont Marcherita.
Follow the river on Lungotevere Mellini till Ponte Cavour, where I turn right heading on Via Vittoria Colonna till Piazza Cavour. Another place under constuction and maintenance. Take a few photos, the surrounding thread (malha) is prety interesting. (Sim Antonio, eu disse Malha)
I start a conversation with a french woman that asks for aid to get up to the place I positioned myself, so that she could compete with my photos. A few laughs, either on my very weak french, or her butchered english.
Piazza Del Tribunali and Palazzo Di Giustizia, boring.
On my way.
Piaza Adriana (LOL) and starting to pass the gardens of Castel Sant'Angelo, that according to Johny Bigodes on the turist center closes at 17:30, and the Vatican closes at 16:00.
Sigo primo al Vaticano.
Throught the Egiptiany Via Della Conciliazione (small detour to Ponte Vittorio Eanuele II).
Vaticano, anouced by the avenue and culminated by Piazza Pio XII, and mithical Piazza S. Pietro.
Reminds me of Fatima, alot of priests with briefcases, they look like executives! And so many monks in habit!
After a long walk arround the Ciutá Dello Vaticano, i find the entrance to the museum. In I Go!
Episode with security guard and X-ray machine, "you have a knife? you have a knife?"
I show the guy it's only batteries for my camera...
Beautiful things and all that, as in most museums. Beautiful gardens, tapestries. And FINALY! the chapel! The genius of Miguel Angelo.I couldn't photograph it...
But the image will not be erased from my mind.
The mithical spiral stairs, and out.
Vatican, religious or not, a must.
Even if just to run and go see the Sistine Chapel ceiling.