Rome ▪ Venice ▪ Capri

For a thousand years, Rome was the center of Western civilization. Just skimming the highlights absorbs several days. The Trevi Fountain, St. Peters Basilica & the Vatican Museums, The Colosseum, and so many more treasures of ancient Rome. Yet you wouldn't want to miss places like Via Veneto. Via Veneto was the home of "La Dolce Vita" (The sweet life) in the 50's, fell to a grimy low in the early 90's, and is once again a playground for celebrities.  

 

 

 

 

Venice is world-famous for its canals, but walking around the backstreets is what Venice is really about. It is built on an archipelago of 122 islands formed by about 150 canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which the city is built are connected by about 400 bridges. Transportation within the city remains, as it was in centuries past, entirely on water or on foot. In the old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water or on foot.
	The "Bridge of Sighs". This bridge led to a dungeon where few ever left.