Roman Holiday - April 8-9, 2006

All the hotels in Milan were booked for this weekend because of a huge furniture exhibition and it was also the weekend of the elections for Prime Minister so I did not have a place to stay in Milan. So I decided to go to Rome for the weekend. I tried to do all the touristy things I could cram in two days...luckily I had been to Rome before so I kind of new what to do. Here are some pics from that weekend...

Palm Sunday at the Vatican, there must have been close to 40,000 people in the square

I was trying to get close to the front while the Pope was addressing the crowd

A view of the Vatican City from the top of the St. Peter's Basilica

A close-up of Michelangelo's "La Pieta"

The Trevi Fountain

Sunset at the Colosseum