A Rome Trip

I’m home. I just came back from a trip to Rome organized by Rijks. They chose five artists from the participants; and with a professor of history of Rome from University of Amsterdam (he can transform himself into a specialist of various subjects: art history, archaeology, and of different artist related to Rome), we investigated every corner of Rome.

Since early in the morning to late at night, we saw so many things, learned about so many things and talked about so many things. It was such an intense trip; but it was very nice that I could visit Rome with such an excellent guide. Otherwise, I would neither have visited Rome nor have learned so much history of the city. Rome is constructed in layers and each has its political history. I hardly understood any of those when I first visited Rome seven years ago. Now I see that Rome has been the centre of Italy in many ways .

There were lots of posters for the coming election in April. Besides these posters, the cherry and the mimosa are in bloom at once. Through the tourists and the Romans, we threaded our way to the museums and the churches filled with the masterpieces of Caravaggio, or Bernini, to the squares build by Michelangelo, or by Mussolini. It was such an intensive two weeks. I was absolutely full. I cannot live on eating such proper European food every day – I do not particularly want Japanese food, but I just like to have something junky.

By accident, I lost almost all the photos... but I think I will be able to paste a few later on.

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