Fountains and Ancient Heads

 Where else in the world can you find so many beautiful fountains........as well as a few classic body parts?

Today or tonight or whenever...., we arrived in Rome. We lost a night along the way and arrived early on Monday morning. Our bodies were screaming for a comfortable, dark bedroom, a soft bed.... But we knew, this would not help our jet lag.  So we set out to explore Rome and along the way, discovered lovely little piazzas, narrow winding streets and all around us the lovely language and delicious aromas of Italy. For more than two thousand years, Rome has had a system of aquaducts that supply fresh, cold water to countless fountains around the city. Imagine....in 98AD, Rome had nine major aquaducts that supplied 39 major fountains and some 600 water basins around the city. All of the aquaducts were destroyed during the fall of Rome but rebuilt during and after the 14th century. Most of these fountains are still in working order today. I have read that the water is safe to drink and you will see people still filling bottles at various water basins around the city. The Trevi Fountain is the most famous and therefore the most crowded.

But there are lovely fountains in most major piazzas. For example, above is the Fountain of the Tritans.

 We found lovely water basins, this one with a fresco of bees.

 What else to do on a sweltering day in Rome....

 

 

 And where else would you find a collection of ancient heads a top a garden wall.....

 

 Today we are off to explore the wild and remote region of Abruzzo, east of Rome and on to the Adriatic. We are anxious to see how wild it is compared to.....Wyoming or .....northern Montana or for that matter, northern Maine.