Hello all! It’s your one and only Wisconsinite Tommie on this trip, Caitlin Cretton! Today was a nice day of rest and re-catching up before our free weekend in Venice.

We visited Villa Dei Quintili – Santa Maria Nova as well as Parco degil Acquedotti. Both of these cites gave us an opportunity to wander and look around at the amazing scenery and just enjoy being outside. To start the day we had class in the morning for about two hours at our hotel. After class we met with our tour guide of the day and she led us to our bus that we would take out of the central city but we were technically still inside Rome.

 

Our first stop was Villa Dei Quintili – Santa Maria Nova and here we saw what used to be a castle for two rich brothers and it was built in 151 A.D. The ruins still standing had several beautiful arches and layers within itself that we were able to walk through and explore. After doing some exploring there was a large structure made up of brick and mortar and later our tour guide let us know it was a tomb, which is the image on the left and there is a person in front to compare how large this tomb was. However, many of us students had several unanswered questions still. One of our main questions was where the rest of the building ended up because we were able to walk on the floor and see the foundations of the building but not its ceiling and most of the sides of the walls.

 

Our second stop of the day was the Parco degil Acquedotti which gave us the nice fresh air and nature that we all needed. It was a nice walk and we also were able to play with some dogs along the way.

We are all preparing for our weekend as we take a night of rest due to our early wake up call at 5:45 tomorrow. As Charles said, each day just gets better and better.