Resplendently remarkable ramshackle Roman things.

So far we've covered a bit of Renaissance Rome, Mid-Classical Rome and Retro Rome.

How about some ancient Rome?

Or to try to keep with my R alliteration, Really Ruined Reign Rome.

Or perhaps Roman era Rome?

Hmmm ok - here are some pictures of absurdly old things.  

One of our wanderings took us around the Roman Forum,  We didn't pay to go in and wander (I think I need another word for walking - "wander" has been a bit overused.  Amble?  Ok Amble) err amble about these magnificent structures in graceful states of destruction (Like that?  Great use of adjectives there Debs - um where was I?) as there was no shade amongst the ruins, it was a meltingly hot day, and the view was just as good from around the edge where there was some shade.

Now for a bit of history.

The Roman forum is what's left of the buildings of the Roman public plaza that was used from about 8th Century BC to 600 AD - that's about 1400 years folks.  It served as an area for commercial, religious, political, legal and social activities.  

You can find a list of the monuments in the Roman Forum here.

You can see a line of tourists up the top who were doing the same thing we were.

I would have liked to actually amble about the ruins but it was really that impossibly hot.

Next time we will go in cooler weather.

Just a nice view from the top of somewhere - nothing to do with ruins.

 Oh and we did happen to pass this place on our travels

but as I'm sure it's not familiar to any of you I shan't mention it.

;)

 Roman Forum - July 2015