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Rome, Vatican City & Naples

Day 4 - Rome

2nd June 2026

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Italian National Day & Villa Borghese

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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  



Obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo with the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo behind it...

 
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Some of the many helicopters from the National Day parade...

Helicopters 1

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Helicopters 2

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Helicopters 3

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The twin churches of Santa Maria dei Miricoli and Santa Maria di Montesanto...

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Frecce Tricolori

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Frecce Tricolori 1


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Frecce Tricolori 2

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Frecce Tricolori 3

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Frecce Tricolori 4

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And release, I was watching and photographing blindly, so didn't manage to get a shot with them all in frame...


  
Frecce Tricolori 5

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Piazza del Popolo from the Borghese Gardens...

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Gallerie Borghese...
 
Borghese


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Cafe at the Gallerie Borghese, Miche avoiding any coffee time-of-day faux pas, by going 'iced'...

Coffee

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Where there's coffee, there has to be cake...

Cake



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Bit of a fancy-pants beer...

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Aesclepian Temple and boating lake...

Aesclepius Temple


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The Water clock which we'd spent ages searching for was out of action and a little underwhelming...
 
Water Clock


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Monument to the Cairoli brothers on the Pincian Hill, it represents a scene from a battle in Rome for the unification of Italy, but has wild west overtones...

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Miche admiring the artworks in this quirky restaurant...

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