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Rome, Vatican City & Naples

Day 2 - Rome

31st May 2026

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City Walk & Giro d'Italia

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A day to get our bearings around the city and to watch the final stage of the Giro d'Italia...



Day 1 - London to Rome Day 2 - Rome - City & Giro d'Italia Day 3 - Naples - Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius
Day 4 - Rome - National Day & Villa Borghese Day 5 - Vatican City & Pantheon Day 6 - Naples - Herculaneum & Pizza
Day 7 - Rome - Colosseum, Fora & Trevi Fountain Day 8 - Return Home  



Rooftop views in the morning...
 
Spanish Steps...

 
Rooftop view 1


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Looking towards Vatican City and St Peter's Basilica...

Rooftop view 2

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Miche with the Sun in her eyes...

Rooftop view 3

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Partizan beer in the supermarket...
 
Beer



Bacchus...

Bacchus


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Trevi Fountain from outside the part you have to pay to get into...
 
Trevi Fountain


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Marcus Aurelius's Column...

Marcus 1

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Intricately carved and inspired by Trajan's Column...

Marcus 2

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Miche walking up the designer shopping street of Via dei Condotti towards the Spanish Steps...

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Views from the room...


 
Room view

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Looking down onto Via della Croce, it was full of small restaurants and shops...

Street


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Walk to our chosen spot for the Giro d'Italia
 
Piazza Navona, it was formerly a stadium in the 1st century AD...
 
Piazza Navona 1


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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountan of the Four Rivers) in front of the Church of Saint Agnes at the Circus of Agonalis...

Piazza Navona 2

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Fontana del Moro (Fountain of the Moor)...

Piazza Navona 3



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Man with a dribbling fish between his legs...

Piazza Navona 4

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Giro logo
 
Miche in position on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II...

Giro 1


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Official cars ahead of the riders...
 
Giro 2

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We were very close to the action...

Giro 4


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Victor Campanaerts...
 
Giro 3

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Sepp Kuss...

Giro 5


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Our spot enabled us to see them enter the course and then do 8 further laps, so we got to see the riders multiple times at close quarters...
 
Giro 6

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Waiting for the next lap, we chose the shady side of the street for our own comfort and it seemed to hug our side of the street too...

Giro 7


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Breakaway...
 
Giro 8

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Chasing groups...

Giro 9


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Jonathan Milan the stage winner...
 
Giro 10

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Another breakaway...

Giro 11


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Filipo Ganna giving it his best shot to get away in one of the final laps...
 
Giro 12

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The icing on the cake was being in the right place at the right time to collect a bidon tossed into the crowd by an Alpecin rider - I haven't worked out who as yet...

Bidon


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No pictures, but we had a lovely relaxed meal and a beer at Anni 60, not fancy, but central and served by an old guy with a great sense of humour...
 
Anni 60

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Next day - Day 3 - Naples - Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius

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Day 1 - London to Rome Day 2 - Rome - City & Giro d'Italia Day 3 - Naples - Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius
Day 4 - Rome - National Day & Villa Borghese Day 5 - Vatican City & Pantheon Day 6 - Naples - Herculaneum & Pizza
Day 7 - Rome - Colosseum, Fora & Trevi Fountain Day 8 - Return Home