A casting call for classical theatre seen at various historical and archaeological sites
McDonald's Pantheon. Doesn't this make you sad?
The street name commemorates the date of the deportation of the Jews of the Ghetto in Rome
In the Jewish Ghetto
In the Jewish Ghetto
The Tavern of the Ghetto
A somewhat lonely and neglected sign just outside Ostia Antica
In the theatre in Ostia Antica, the ancient port city near Rome
Archaeological site under video surveillance!
Six minutes, and minus two thousand years, to the Ara Pacis
Near the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Near the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
It's amazingly easy, and in many cases amusing, to misread 'pizza' for 'piazza'
The new museum of the history of musical instruments is really cool! Shame they wouldn't let me take photos
I still have no idea what this advert on the back of a bus was all about
There are political posters like this one everywhere in the city (and presumably in the country)
It was really too bad the replica wasn't nearly as cool as I had been led to believe the original was
A typical confessional booth in the church of St John Lateran, listing the languages available in which you may confess your sins
Not so secret anymore, eh?
This is pretty cool
I saw the name 'Richard Nixon' and did a double take
In the Vatican Museum complex
God's Final Message To His Creation
Proving that the Vatican is, in fact, a sovereign country, their sewer covers are sui generis
SPQR is on friggin' everything in Rome
Hilarious translation errors
More hilarious translation errors
A very very old standing ordinance
Not really unusual, but a nice sign nonetheless
As Bova (of Space Cases—remember that?) might say, 'Twenty thousand volts? Baby food!'
That's one serious hand.
In the really amazing spiral staircase out of the Vatican Museum
I can't really figure out what this sign intends to forbid
On the plane returning home; I still think this is funny (it's an exit, sorta)
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