It's easy to be a lazy tourist in Rome. I've said it before, everything is something......add to it that there are various tourist traps, as in all cities, the wax museum, countless 'Leonardo' shows....with no actual work by Leonardo and a few places that boggle the mind.....as examples take the Spanish Steps and the Fountain of Trevi [ the fountain IS nice, but really???]......there are throngs of people there but not much else. Another addition to this, yes we did get pulled in, is the newly restored Trajan's Forum. It looks impressive. Designed by Tragan's favorite architect, Apollodorus the semicircular construction is terraced into the hill, six stories high, there are various other ruins in this complex, they are not open to the public.
In all fairness, it's a marvel, but there is somehow no there there. The views are spectacular, you get a bird's eye view of the Vittoriano, but the architecture is so repetitive that it somehow leaves you numb. It is indeed the precursor of our own shopping malls.
Encountering Trajan's column from Via Nazionale.
All of the rooms are exactly the same.
You are not allowed in at ground level or in the lower parts of the building.
The one area in which you may walk, a typical roman street with shops.
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