Cultural week in Italia

This week it is cultural week in Italy - every year they decide on a week to try and encourage people to have cultural experiences in their cities. To do this they make the majority of museums and attractions free of charge. Excellent!

Yesterday I went inside The Colosseum. I had visited it before in 2003, and so I wasnt planning on going in again, but hey, its free, so why not! If anything I was more impressed this time round.



This morning I met some classmates at 09:00 and we went to visit Castel Sant'Angelo before school. Another impressive structure - it is possible to get onto the roof which provides some pretty cool panorama's of the city, and of St Peters specifically.



And then this afternoon I took a walk around the Roman forum. Its a bit of mess, structures falling down all over the place, but you get a good idea of how it all started for the earlier inhabitants of Rome.



So tomorrow morning I am meeting up again with classmates to go have a look at the Musei Capitolini, then Saturday morning we will head half an hour out of Rome to Tivoli, apparently there are fantastic gardens there. And Sunday I am off to Pompei with my class from school - really looking forward to that!

So its a busy week for me! Will try write again later this week to let you know how it goes - it wont be Wednesday night because I am off to a free concert in Piazza del Popolo - Ben Harper is playing in an earth day concert.