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Joe Steinbring

Italy

In March 2022, my Mom and I spent a week and a half in Italy. We landed at Fiumicino and slept off the jet lag beside the airport, then Rome — the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the chapel at the top of the Holy Stairs — and south to Naples, Pompeii, and Herculaneum under Vesuvius. Venice and St. Mark’s were the other half of it, and Vatican City has a page of its own.

Fiumicino, Pompei, Naples, and Venice6 places · 24 photographs
Static offline map of Italy marking 6 visited places.

Places visited

Places I visited in Italy

  • A sloping brick-paved plaza and wide steps below long, windowed brick buildings under a gray sky.
    A wide brick plaza in Fiumicino under a gray sky.

    Fiumicino

    A first night in Italy, getting over the jet lag by the airport: quiet streets, salami from Norcia and spaghetti carbonara, from a trip with my Mom in 2022.

  • A silver regional train at a sunny station platform under a blue sign reading “Pompei.”
    Arriving at Pompei station on a Trenitalia regional train.

    Pompei

    The paved streets and Forum of Pompeii and the painted room of the Villa of the Mysteries, from a trip with my Mom in 2022.

  • A white van in traffic on a busy street, people walking past under a café sign reading “Mexico.”
    Traffic and crowds on a Naples street.

    Naples

    Crowded streets, tall apartment blocks and a street shrine to the Madonna, from a trip with my Mom in 2022.

  • Excavated Roman buildings and arched vaults in a deep pit, a modern town and a volcano beyond.
    The ruins of Herculaneum, below the modern town, with Vesuvius behind.

    Ercolano

    The ruins of Herculaneum below Vesuvius, from the arches on its ancient shoreline to a Roman street and house, from a trip with my Mom in 2022.

  • The outer arcades of the Colosseum above a railing, with visitors on the pavement at the left.
    The Colosseum from the street, on a gray afternoon.

    Rome

    The Colosseum, the dome of the Pantheon and the chapel at the top of the Holy Stairs, from a trip with my Mom in 2022.

  • A wide stone square between long arcaded buildings, a tall brick bell tower and a domed basilica.
    St. Mark’s Square, with the Campanile and St. Mark’s Basilica.

    Venice

    St. Mark’s Square in the sun, the gold mosaics of St. Mark’s Basilica, and gondolas under the Bridge of Sighs, from a trip with my Mom in 2022.

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