I already mentioned that I went to Italy during the mid-term break in June in my last post. Some of my news friends are very interested in where I visited in Rome. I attached two of the photos in Rome to this post. They were taken on 25 and 26 of June at 'Paizza Navona' . As you can see, there are no skyscrapers in the pictures as well as in Rome. Let me tell the history of 'Paizza Navona'. 'Piazza Navona' is a city square in Rome, It follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the first century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones ("games"). It was known as 'Circus Agonalis' (competition arena). It is thought that over time the name changed to 'in agone' to 'navone' and eventually to 'navona'. Besides, the obelisk behind me is called ' Agonalis' , it is 30m height. It was made in Rome as copy of ancient Egyptian original in 1651 by Bernini, who was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome.

Reference List:

Wikipedia (2008). Paizza Navona. Retreived 3,Augest,08 from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_of_Domitian