Today our first visit was the Terme di Caracalla, one of the biggest (and best preserved) bathing houses in Roman history. In it times (AD 216 till AD 537) it could house 1600 visitors at once. When we arrived it was clear this must have been an enormous building. When you walk through it you can do nothing but gaze in amazement of how big this complex was and still is. The complex is situated outside of the busy center of Rome and besides few people talking and the seagulls calling, it was very quiet. It was like you were not in the city at all and was lost between the ruins. In it you can find some of the decorations that were used in those days. There were mosaic floors and pieces of mosaic wall decorations situated between the ruins. It was a little saddening that in the past when they excavated these ruins (1534-1549 and 1824), many of the statues and bathtubs were taken to other places and a part was re-used (as many other things in Rome are). If the bathtubs were still there you get a much better idea of what has been in the past. The statues are in museums these days, we guess a few even in the Vatican museum we visited yesterday. We could see they were still busy with restoration and excavations. Some parts were blocked for visitors because of this. When we were finished we continued to the big white (black by smoke) Piramide di Caio Cestio. Near it was the famous graveyard Cimitero Acattolico per gli Stranieri. Although we are not fond of graveyards, this one was very beautiful. It was like a little museum with here and there the most beautiful statues. There was even a shelter for cats at the corner and you could find them all over the place on the gravestones, enjoying the sun! When we continued our walk to our next destination we noticed this part was really the outer part of Rome, the buildings were well maintained (old and new) and the surrounding was much greener then we had ever seen in Rome. It was like everything had more room. The houses were a lot bigger and well maintained and very colorful as well. After our walk we arrived at our destination Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta where you could look trough a keyhole and see something special, and it was. You saw the St. Peter trough big bushes of plants. The building and keyhole was very nicely situated indeed by the one who build it. A little further along we found ourselves in the Parco Savello. A bit small but with (again) a nice overview of Rome. Afterwards we continued our walk (while enjoying the nice surroundings) to the Circo Massimo, but as we expected there was not much left. You could see the Forum Romanum from behind, that was a nice sight. The Bocca della Verità was a bit further, but too busy to visit personally, although the legend that your hand gets bitten if you have lied is a nice one. A short walk from there was the bridge that gave you a good view of the smallest island in Italy were people live, Isola Tiberina. It was very small but you could see that most buildings there were quite big for the common people to live. It looked like it was mostly for the richer people. On the other side was an even older part of the city, directly visible by the smaller streets, the smaller shops and the type of people that walked around there. After the next bridge we went to the busy center again, where we enjoyed some shopping and dinner before returning to our hotel.