Illustrations of history

hits different live

I guess I don't appreciate things well, bc I didn't really feel much from seeing the Pantheon or even the Sistine Chapel. But what I REALLY loved seeing live was just the downtown area in Rome between Piazza Venezia, the Spanish Steps, and the bridge to Castel Sant'Angelo. So amazing to wander around these 1800s/1900s buildings making up a bustling modern city and every single block has a church, a plaza, and some ruins. My favorite was the ruins of the Largo di Torre Argentina which I believe was where Julius Caesar got stabbed, and which houses a cat sanctuary. There was a newsstand nearby and a grocer, so I could get a comic book and a snack and sit on a bench looking down on it. Eventually a cat would saunter up and be like: what.