Mediterranean

COLOSSEUM
Completed 80 A.D., the circus was home to centuries of gladiatorial combats and featured 76 numbered entrances, marble seats and subterranean passages, where animals and apparatus were kept. The arena floor could be flooded to host naval combats.

ROMAN FORUM
The ruins of the forum stand in mute testimony to what Byron described as the “grandeur that was Rome”.

SISTINE CHAPEL
The gem of the Vatican Museum is the celebrated chapel that is home to Michelangelo’s frescoes ‘The Creation’ and ‘The Last Judgement’.

SPANISH STEPS
The heart of Rome’s old Bohemian Quarter (Keats and Shelley lived nearby), the steps take their name from the 16th century Spanish Embassy to the Holy Sea. Today the area surrounding Piazza Espagna is the city’s chic shopping district.

ST. PETER'S BASILICA
By far the largest church in the world, St. Peter’s Basilica took more than 100 years to build. Some of the greatest figures of the Renaissance were employed in its creation, from Bramante and Bernini to Michelangelo and Raphael.

TREVI FOUNTAIN
Blue-green water cascades over the Baroque figures of Rome’s most famous fountain. Follow custom and toss a coin into the fountain, a gesture that insures your return to the Eternal City.

VATICAN CITY
The spiritual and administrative centre of Roman Catholicism is also one of the smallest independent states in the world. The Vatican mints its own coins, prints its own stamps, and maintains its own army of Swiss Guards.

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