March 9, 2010
Summer in Italy
I have often been in Italy, but never in Rome, when I decided, in 2002 at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Jorak Solam, on a trip to Rome with the ancient history seminar at the Humbold University of Berlin. Professor Solam is one of the most original Berlin professors, and what could be better to know than with a group of enthusiasts, history, the “eternal city”? We were a diverse group of students and graduates aged 20 to 60 and a correspondingly great atmosphere on board, if we take the overnight train to Munich to Rome. For me it was no more room in our compartment and I took up residence with a family who traveled from Munich to Naples. We had not yet crossed the Alps, when I by Luigi and Gina, the other passengers were called, was already adopted. It was a very fun ride, and when we came to Rome, I had a little Schwipps, because of course I had to Luigi and Gina’s taste wine.
Italy is just perfect, especially the south of italy in the summer months.Our hotel was in a former monastery near the Roman Forum, I forgot the name, because before there was a lecture by Prof. S. He seemed inspired by Rome, his pocket is quite loose rocker arm and began to speak.
He was rarely better on a mix of enthusiastic guides and Livy. Some tourists were so fascinated that she joined our little group. On the Arch of Septimus Severus, began our tour with Mamertine dungeons under the church of San Pietro in Carcere. My goodness, the Roman state prison I had imagined, is greater. Vercingetorix, Jugurtha Numiderknig was caught and later the apostle Peter. Shortly before the Capitol was the golden milestone, where all the roads end. The Basilica Aemiliana on the right side, and the Basilica of the deified Julius Caesar and the Temple of Castor on the left, Prof. S. gave the rest of the night, a bottle of wine on the Via Sacra, and this kept the Libation our safe Arrive in a speech delivered in sonorous Latin, before we parked our luggage at the hotel, and we allowed a very special sweet Rome The Capitoline Museums The square in front of the Capitol is one of my favorite places in Rome. None other than Michelangelo created has the place, he is like a creature from Rome of the Renaissance and antiquity. Welcomed by the middle of the square my favorite of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The original is made of acid rain, has been restored and is now in the Capitoline Museums.
There, among other things, see the famous statue of the “Dying Gaul” and “Dornenausziehers too. Greet in the hall of the philosophers, the busts of Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus in the hall of the emperors, the Caesars of Rome. I knew them all and had to think of the biographies of Suetonius, who knew so scandalous reports of the lords. The Capitoline Museums are the best leader of Rome, where it is not crowded as in the Vatican, because, although historians was St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel