This post will continue on with our 11-day Italy tour with the SmarTours company. Today, I will cover more of Rome in our walking tour of Rome, the Forum, the Coliseum, and finally a foodie walking tour in the evening. Rome is a very walkable city and we walked 6.4 miles on this day!
Trevi Fountain
This fountain is undeniably the most famous fountain in the world. The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762. People come from all over the world to toss in coins. Legend has it that tossing a coin in the fountain to ensure a return to Rome. The precise legend of the Trevi Fountain says you should stand with your back to the fountain and toss a coin over your left shoulder to guarantee a return trip to Rome.
The design of the sculptures is baroque, but on the day that we visited it was just broke. Or else a good cleaning was required. Someone else ventured a guess that the city does this quite often to collect all the Euro coins. Whatever, we saw no water of fountains. Darn timing…
Workman cleaning with a high pressure hose. 
The crowds could be bad
Rome Walking Tour
Every day we would have a different tour guide that specialized in that area. All were very knowledgeable and were able to get us into the fast line at attractions due to having advance tickets or else other arrangements.
The water fountains in Rome were everywhere and flowed constantly. The water was good to drink and from the mountains so they say. You just had to rinse off hand, then put finger over the outlet that forced water out of a hole on top creating a drinking fountain!
Legend has it that the twins Romulus and Remus were ordered to be drowned in the Tiber River, but the trough in which they were placed floated down the river and came to rest at the site of the future Rome. There they were nursed by a she-wolf named Lupa, and later raised by a shepherd. 
Pat, Pinocchio, and Randy L. beside home of Pinocchio 
All cars in Rome are small. This is an antique small car
The Pantheon
The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and, since 609 AD, a Catholic church in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus. It was rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated c. 126 AD.
Arch
The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome dedicated to the emperor Constantine the Great. The arch was commissioned by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in AD 312.
The Forum
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city’s great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history.
The Colosseum
This was the highlight of our Rome tour. For its age, wars, and earthquakes, it is amazing that so much remains. The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age.
It opened in 80AD and could hold up to 80,000 people. It was built to keep the people of Rome entertained, although a brutal form of entertainment. This is where the gladiators would fight all kinds of wild animals. The animals were lifted from the basement on elevators to the floor level of sand to soak up the blood.
One side has weathered better due to foundation and direction of storms. 
We were there! 
There were many, many people. Very crowded 
They have re-constructed the flooring over half the area. 
A good look at the basement where the wild animals were held until needed.
Food Walking Tour
Street entertainers 
Food vendors everywhere 
Pizza ready for the oven 
Our food guide walking and handing out samples 
Other
Most all the street were a cobblestone of who knows how many hundreds of years old. Difficult walking at times.
Wrap Up
Thanks for following along. I’m trying to have the entire two week trip documented in blog form before I start to forget the details, but there have been many other activities since we returned home. Can’t complain though! Up next is the Vatican and did we get to meet the Pope?! Take care and God Bless.