First Time In Rome Was Overwhelming- Pantheon To Trevi Fountain / Spanish Steps & Castel Sant'Angelo
First Time In Rome Italy
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Today's adventure begins
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as the recording of this Sunday,
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November 23rd, 2025.
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Yes,
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that is the Colosseum.
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I am in Rome, Italy,
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feasting my eyes upon this wonder of the
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world.
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Incredible.
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I'm in Italy here at these cross
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streets.
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Rather confusing, hectic
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cross streets as these cars zip in and
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out of each other.
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Mopeds, motorcycles, taxis,
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people walking.
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My first day
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here in Rome. And when in Rome,
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what's this say? Do the Romans. Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo here. And I'm
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inviting you to join me on my first day
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ever in Rome.
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We're do some exploring. See what there
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is to see and have myself a day. Join
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me,
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shall you? Maybe at some point I should
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get one of these Roman helmets here.
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That definitely would fit in. Oh, you
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get the whole the whole shield and
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everything. This little gift shop. I
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don't think I'm going to be going in the
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coliseum today. I'm here for a few days.
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I'm in Italy for over a week. Between a
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week to 10 days, give or take a day,
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but I'm in Rome for a few days. So,
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going to save the coliseum for another
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day.
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I had thought about going to sleep after
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my flight, but I decided probably it's
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best to stay up and try to get on track
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with the jet lag and everything.
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Have a full day and go to bed at a
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decent hour. Here's the off. There's a
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little police cars right there.
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There's a bunch of guys in camo.
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a popular spot up here.
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I'm getting photos.
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Need to get find a place to get some
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coffee. Little coffee shop there. Like
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to get something to go so I can walk and
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sip.
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There's just fantastic architecture and
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ruins everywhere here.
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what this looked like back in the day
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before it was all demolished.
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You look over here, you can see like an
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entry point, some stairs, and the
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pillars, the Roman pillars there.
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They went all the way up and around. You
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can see even some that still exist. Some
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portions of them right over there.
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It's incredible.
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>> Again, I'm sure I'll learn a lot more
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about a lot of these buildings and
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what's inside all of them during my
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stay. Just kind of surveying the
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landscape for today. There's a lot of
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military presence out here. I'm noticing
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camouflage vehicle there.
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Look up top.
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>> There's a
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cherub on the back of a chariot.
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This the famous Mussolini building where
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he would give his speeches known as the
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Mussolini steps.
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But they weren't actually steps where he
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gave the speech. It was a balcony,
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possibly that balcony there.
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It's a really cool old photo of him and
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all his guards approaching this building
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from back in the day.
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>> There's the old photo. Take a look at
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that.
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Never really seen this where people just
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walk between traffic and a wall. This
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just like in the road.
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>> Surprisingly, no cars are honking to let
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anybody get out of the way. It's just
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like a flow of people in front and
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behind me. like a single file line
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just crunching in between the bus there
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and the wall.
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>> All right, I got a cup of coffee over
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here at Dante's Bar. Looks like it's
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been around for a long time. Dante's
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Bar.
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Noticing the size of the coffees here
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are not the largest.
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>> They're probably a little stronger, but
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I got a Americana.
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>> Cheers. This place's tiny. Yes, I would
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certainly not want to drive through the
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the very busy
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iconic location spots of Rome.
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This is definitely a more of a walking
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section. Driving through here would be
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so stressful. Look at the amount of
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people that are up here at Trevy
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Fountain.
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Look at that.
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>> This is out of control, Bizzy. Oh my
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gosh.
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What the heck?
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>> And there's people down on the lower
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level also.
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I've seen this recreated.
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You'll see a lot of these sculptures
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recreated in different places. It's wild
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to be standing in front of the real one.
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Oh, actually this line is to be able to
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get down to it. That's what that is.
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>> Okay, now I get it. Now I get it.
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Did a quick little research and
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evidently this was commissioned back in
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1730s
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by Pope Clement
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7th, but it wasn't completed till like
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30 years later.
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It's like 30 years of construction
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to make this.
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>> Unbelievable.
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I think it makes it even more
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unbelievable is how many people are
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standing in front of this getting a
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photo or walking by.
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This is also a weekend. I would imagine
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maybe tomorrow and the next day won't be
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as busy.
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Maybe it will be. I don't know.
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All right. I'm noticing now they have a
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few guards over there at the base of the
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stairs leading down. That way only a
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certain amount of people can go up near
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the front of the fountain at a time. And
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once a few people leave, more people can
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go down. Curious to see how this is
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going to be over the next couple days on
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a weekday and not the weekend, but very
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very busy out here right now. Heading
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over to the shopping district over here
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near Spanish Square.
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Walking pretty close to the Spanish
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Steps. Oh, there goes a bird.
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I want to do some shopping.
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Oh, wow. Look at this guy.
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Pora Hayek
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Classa Arit.
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He's holding a scroll
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being very animated with his arm there.
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This is an art installation. Bunch of
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mirrors.
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Oh my gosh, that bird almost hit me in
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the head.
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>> Coming in hot, bird. Coming in hot.
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There's the steps right there. I was
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just watching Roman Holiday.
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Classic film.
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There were couple scenes filmed right
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here on this little area. At least one
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scene on this area. I'm sure it's been
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used in many other movies as well. I
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think they might have even used these in
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European vacation. A lot of this area
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they use in European vacation.
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A lot of people just sitting up on the
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steps just hanging out.
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Also, speaking of European vacation,
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Chvy Chase and the rest of the
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Griswalts. I think it was that street
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there. They were walking down. They were
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doing all the extreme shopping for all
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the extravagant clothes during the
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during the montage
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doing like a Christmas serenade concert
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down here or holiday Saturday concert
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out here by the fountain.
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view of the poet apartment right up
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there. And
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top of the stairs way up there is that
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amazing basilica. I found the exact spot
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where Griswalds were getting all their
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clothes on. You see the where all their
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fancy clothes on, I should say. Walking
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out of the store, you see the Spanish
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steps. You see the cathedral off in the
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distance. Take a look at the store over
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here and the way the doors are. You got
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two normal size doors. Well, not normal,
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they're big doors, but rectangular
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style. And then a big window here that's
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like a full box and then a big tall
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door. And that still looks exactly the
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same with the
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two regular kind of doors, the big box
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window, and then the tall door. That was
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the spot right there. All right. I
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combined both of them together. Kind of
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see them both right there.
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Pretty cool. Pretty cool.
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>> I was walking close to this tree and I
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noticed it's not a real tree. It is a
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art installation.
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There's also an eagle up there on the
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top of there. But from a distance,
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this does look like a real tree. With
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the closer you get, definitely is not.
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It's got this unusual piece of concrete
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with a root system up in there,
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but definitely not a real tree. Not made
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out of wood. If you look over here,
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see here, this is not real.
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It's a pay phone here. Got some writing
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all over it. I don't even know if that
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thing works, but that is
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it's a pay phone. Take a look down here.
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These little tubes
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Look at this tiny little automobile.
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That thing's probably
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I think smaller than my golf cart.
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Here comes another one. Look at this
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little teeny car. It's called an
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intercar.
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Really like these little news stands
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here on each of the corners
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selling souvenirs, magnets, t-shirts,
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magazines, things like that.
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of hard to tell what all this says cuz
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it's kind of weather worn from all the
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different years.
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I might go inside this building here.
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Definitely see there's people up there
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on the the upper level.
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Check this out. And leading up there is
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this bridge called the Pont St. Angelo,
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which is a very unique looking structure
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built by Emperor Hadrien.
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had to look it up what the name of this
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bridge was. And it's said to be one of
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the most popular bridges anywhere in
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Rome. And this is one of the most
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popular trash spots anywhere in Rome.
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Right next to the most popular bridge. I
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guess people just leave their crap
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anywhere. Take a look at all the love
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locks down here.
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That is when
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someone or couples or someone will put a
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lock as a memory along a bridge or an
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embankment or staircase or something
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like that. This is no exception as well.
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It's a really cool angle of the bridge
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itself.
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Lot of people on the bridge getting
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their photographs. And if you look over
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here,
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it's like a
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a monk or something right here.
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Hey, the name of this guy is Borgo. At
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least that's my interpretation cuz it
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says Borgo at the base of the sculpture
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right there.
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There's almost like a code of arms right
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there as well.
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See that button there in the middle one
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then through
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>> So
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>> I think this is the Vatican right there.
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>> I might have to go in there while I'm
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here at some point. Maybe not today, but
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always think of Blazing Saddles.
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That doesn't seem like much of a crime.
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Stampeding cat. I messed that up.
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Stampeding cattle. That doesn't seem
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like much of a crime
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>> through the Vatican.
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Kinky. My gosh. There's like a
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Braveheart moment coming up here. This
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whole influx of people like charging.
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It's like a whole wall. It's like a wall
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of people just coming in right here. Oh,
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they're getting a photo. They were
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getting ready to charge towards me there
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for a second.
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Hold.
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There's a seagull perched up on the top
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of that cross. That chair with the
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cross.
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There's a seagull up there. Just holding
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down the fort
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>> flapping its wings
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>> giving himself a little scratch
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A seagull might be on a Roman holiday.
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Oh man, look at all those seagulls
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swirling around right above the front
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entrance waiting in line to get a
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ticket.
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>> Okay. Have made it in.
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Got some little head sculptures here.
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Simply referred to as the manly head of
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a colossal statue dating back to AD 126
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to 150. just somewhere in that vicinity.
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All right. To get up to this level, you
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got to walk pretty big incline and a lot
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of steps. This is maybe the 3/4 of the
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way to the top.
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Another cherub here. Centurion cherub.
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There's all these little aloves
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and indentations where you could tell
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there used to be busts and carvings and
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sculptures.
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at one point.
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>> This is a miniature here.
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>> This is a photo photo from 184 an
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artistic rendering I should say from
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1846 with the horserawn carriages and
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the soldiers
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going across the bridge there.
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This was also used as a mausoleum as
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well. Yeah, this bas this dates back to
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1782.
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This piece of artwork, the bridge
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there and the
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building right there,
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This says it was originally meant to be
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an imperial mausoleum
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served over the course of centuries as a
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fortified resident prison and now a
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museum. It was known as Hadrien's mold.
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The model in the center of the room I
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showed is what it looked like in 1943.
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>> There's a really neat viewpoint here as
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you kind of peek out this little window.
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And when you peek out another one of
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these, you can see some of the
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cannonballs down there.
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And you also see this little walkway
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that goes from this over to the Vatican.
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This little passageway
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goes along the wall.
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Well, the ceiling I should say. Big
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fireplace in here as well.
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This is the Paleolina room in which Paul
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III counterreformation pope
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was enter his entertaining room for the
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pope's apartment where he welcomed his
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guests. Imagine just waiting in here to
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be entertained.
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>> This is kind of interesting right here
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where this doorway is. There's this
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gentleman been painted on the door.
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Oh, here's another really good
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good angle looking down at that bridge.
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Look at
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>> that through the open there.
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It's like a door.
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>> Oh.
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fountain.
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>> Amazing fountain.
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You know what? This is another European
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vacation spot where Clark's walking with
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the family around this fountain right
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here.
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Not to keep harping on the Chvy Chase
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European vacation classic, but kind of
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hard to not mention them when I'm
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walking past them. They're kind of all
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in the general area. This is a great
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little area. Great little square down
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here. A little shopping district.
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Little gift shop here. This bear kind of
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kind of sporting sporting the bears look
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today with the little fanny over the
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shoulder fanny pack the back side of the
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Pantheon.
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Oh yeah.
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Still so wild that I'm in Rome right
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now.
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Wow.
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Oh my gosh. There's so many people down
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>> There's some people in this little
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Pantheon Square. And some say the first
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selfie was taken right here.
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If you know, you know.
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It's a traditional film style camera
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from the 80s.
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I mean it's argue, you know, it's an
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argued fact
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>> just opinions, but some would say from
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this angle.
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>> Nailed it.
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>> And there's quite a few places to eat
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right here in the square. So, I think
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I'm going to grab some Italian food
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right here in the square.
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>> Yeah, not a bad table right here.
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Went with a little fetuccini alfredo,
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some olives, Coca-Cola in a bottle they
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poured into a glass and a pretty good
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view.
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>> Yeah. And I got to say the cheese or the
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sauce in here, the cream sauce so good.
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This is like some of the best pasta.
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I've only had one bite. I've already
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already loving it. I guess it's like an
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ashtray right there. The birds are
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circling around. The bells just started
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ringing. The birds circling around up
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there.
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All right. I think I'm going to try to
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go inside there. Also, it's very
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interesting. I notice these all over
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town. Not only they're fountains, but
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there's also little areas here where
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just water always dispensing non-stop.
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You don't even have to turn it on. These
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are all over town. The effervescently
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flowing water non-stop.
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>> It's5
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to go inside.
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So evidently the same width of the
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building is the same height of the
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building.
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There are a couple of couple of graves
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in here as well.
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famous painter and architect 1483 to
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1520.
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>> Wow. There's his crypt right there.
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>> Wow, that's cool.
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Cuz
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if you notice something
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really has
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>> on the sides We have two niches. One is
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the boss of Rafael and here
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Just next door is a another Basilica
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church building.
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Now that I see these, I think these are
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the stairs from Roman Holiday, not the
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ones I was talking about earlier.
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Look familiar. Also,
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Crescent Moon above the coliseum, which
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is illuminated. Check that out.
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This looks really, really awesome. Lit
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up at night. These old ruins here with
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the pillars and archways and everything.
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I'm looking forward to at some point on
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my trip doing a tour inside and all
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around
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in the bowels perhaps of the coliseum.
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Not today though, but sometime while I'm
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here. That is a fascinating, amazing,
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iconic structure.
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Can't wait to get in there at some point
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on this trip.
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from Rome. We'll see you in the next
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video. Thanks for watching.
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