The “Holiness” of Pagan Rome
May 7, 2008, 9:35 pm
Filed under: Christianity, Italy, Life, Rome, Travel | Tags: Christian History, Christianized Rome, Corelli, Hadrian, History, Italy, Pagan Rome, Pantheon, Peruzzi, Pope Boniface IV, Queen Margherita, Raphael, Rome, Saint Mary of the Martyrs, Umberto, Vittorio Emmanuele II
Filed under: Christianity, Italy, Life, Rome, Travel | Tags: Christian History, Christianized Rome, Corelli, Hadrian, History, Italy, Pagan Rome, Pantheon, Peruzzi, Pope Boniface IV, Queen Margherita, Raphael, Rome, Saint Mary of the Martyrs, Umberto, Vittorio Emmanuele II
Our tour group passes through narrow side streets, quickly leaving behind the open Piazza Navona in favor of darker, less populated areas. We are all exhausted, weary of walking and of following the brightly unfit scarf which marks our tour guide with a particular cheer. The tour, thus far, has been insanely hurried, and one more stop cannot be as eagerly anticipated as the more leisurely visitor might like. But I follow because I have no choice and because the bus will be waiting shortly after to console my burning feet.
Rounding a corner, I am not disappointed, for there looms the impressive and dark boast of Rome: the Pantheon.
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