remembering the my inner tourist

To be honest I don't really know where all the my plans about going to all places described in my guidebook, went. But I can say that its pretty much in the planning phase, or what ever you call plans that was never followed in a positive word.

That said, I do have some sudden urges to go and see something ancient, or at least historical, and when that happens I try to go as fast as possible. So yesterday when I was reading my book in italian number 2, and found a reference to a saint called Ignatius Loyola, and looked on wikipedia(link), to see who he was, and then led me to look at Sant'Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio (link) a Baroque church. According to wikipedia the Church had some really nice frescoes so I thought that I better go and see those ceilings in real life (also because it was 10 min from the cinema, where I was going to see IRON MAN (cool movie))



Sadly some things work on a very tight schedule here, namely the closing times for museums and churches. So when I arrived five minutes after closing time, everything was locked and closed. But the square was nice. And I also had some time to go back to Piazza Colonna and see if I could spot any famous people going in and out of the government building. I also spend some time wondering who the target audience of the statue on top of the column was. I understand the column is decorated to tell the story of Marcus Aurelius triumph over the Teutons and Sarmatians in the year 176 and was finished in 190 (after his death).




Its a beautiful sculpture, which was put in this place many centuries before the square around put there... In fact it was in the northern part of a 2 km² square. Outside of the roman walls of that time. Another funny detail is that the street level have raised 3 meters, since it was put there.

Looking close at the picture, one would probably start wondering about why it is that its a statue of st.Peter and not good old Marcus thats standing on top. But that was a personal touch made by the pope Sixtus V in 1589, when he ordered the column restored.

Anyway I went on to the cinema to see IRONMAN. and it was great.