The Last Day in Rome by Lily Gayton

The Pantheon.

The first half of our last day was spent seeing everything that we did not get to see. Most importantly, the Pantheon. It was a lot more beautiful than I had pictured. I pictured plain stone walls, but the walls were actually covered in marble images of many colors. It was cool to see the Roman architecture and the obviously Roman building, and how it was transformed into a Christian church. I enjoyed the history of how it used to be a Roman temple for worshiping their many gods, and how the Christians had turned it into a church.

We visited a museum about the Capuchin monks. They built the bone churches, which were churches decorated with the bones of the dead members. The church was very creepy but very cool at the same time.

The second half of the day was spent in Frascati. This was my favorite part of Italy. I liked the small town atmosphere. Dinner was awesome. The waiter brought out different plates of food and we all passed them around, which was very different than eating in America at a restaurant.

After dinner we took the train back to Rome to rest up for the trip back to the U.S.