Post 2-My Europe trip- Italy Trip

For as long as I remember I had always dream about traveling the world. My youngest sister, Monica, and I had become real close in the past 6 years, we are call but our friends and family the "inseparable sisters".  So late last year we decided to make my dream come true and do a backpack journey through 4 countries in Europe: Italy, Istanbul, France, Greece, and Santorin (Island in Greece).
I chose to talk about Italy first and on its own because it was the country where we explored a lot different cities, five in total.  I will take to our journey one by one…..

Rome

The trip began by arriving at Rome; we flew overnight, and arrived early afternoon, check into the hotel and took off to explore, we had only enough time to see the Spanish Steps, and to have dinner. The Spanish steps are 135 steps, named after the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See; they lead to the French Church Trinita dei Monti.  Here we can also find the Trevi Fountain; the legend says that throwing a coin into the fountain means that you will return to Rome again… I throw one :)
What I beautiful place...

 

 

 Next day we took a tour to Pompeii, vast archaeological site in south Italy that was buried in meters of ash and pumice by a huge eruption back in 79 C.E. It was rediscovery in 1599, and its excavation took decades. It was an amazing site to see, we also had the chance to see one of the biggest exhibitions of artifacts that details an insight into the life of the city, plus the exhibition of the plaster casts of some of the human victims…incredible thing to see in person.   

 

 Third day we did the sightseeing tour to Rome by the Hop-On-Off Bus Tour.  

What an amazing adventure…

 

 Next City Florence, which is the capital of Tuscany, home to masterpieces of art and architecture. 

Florence

Then we visited Pisa, best known for its iconic Leaning Tower, a 56m white-marble cylinder was tilting since its completion back in 1372. There is also striped-marble cathedral in the Piazza dei Miracoli.

 

 

Venice



  

 Next stop Venice…what a beautiful city! Venice is the capital of northern Italy. Filled with numerous narrow alleys that meets into small squares or plazas where people socialized. The city was built in the Adriatic Sea; there are no cars, just canals and boats, totally amazing!!!

Part two of my journey on next Blog  :).....