Il Foro Romano

- it was one of the last places in Rome that we visited. The scale of the place was just mind boggling. However, from memory it was very ruined so you needed to imagine extremely hard to conjure up what it must have been like in its heyday.

visit early in the morning. the gates open at 9am, and there are almost no people there at that time. by 11, there are swarms of people and large tour groups.

I got lost here, and the people who work around it aren’t very helpful. It was awesome though, because I got a nice break from 100 american tourists that I was with.

There are tons of different things to see before the forum. If you visited Greece or Turkey before, you’ll find forum not well preserved. See it if you have spare time. It’s just a step away from Colosseum.

Just beautiful if you know the background…study Latin so you get an idea, very interesting :)