They're just so photogenic

IMG_0049, originally uploaded by Kyle S.

This is a church/temple in Rome. I like the up-close perspective with the church towering up into the sky.

The cool thing about this church, is that you can see the old columns of the Roman temple in front of the somehow-San-Antonio-ish church. On the tour, we were told that the reason is that the Christians wanted to turn the impressive structure into a church, which they did, but they could not tear down the columns in front of the building. The reason? They were buried in a few meters of dirt already. If you look at the front of the building, you notice the door is high above the 'ground'. There is also part of a statue in front of the door on the lower level. The top of the statue was broken off because it was above the ground and the door was put in at ground level. The darker part of the wall was below ground level. At the time I'm taking the photo, there is still several more meters dug out below the bottom of those columns. (That's how I got this perspective.) Rome is a city built several times upon itself. When the city fell, it was buried by the next great Rome.

Keith, I think I fixed the problem of commenting on this blog. Hopefully now everyone should be able to easily leave comments. And they are welcome.