Rome to Barcelona Cruise October 2024 on Celebrity, Constellation.
Friday 25th Oct 2024 flew El Al to Leonardo de Vinci Airport Rome, from where we had an organized taxi to the old port of Rome called Citavechia. (old city) Our hotel was a family run place on ground floor above us were apartments. One of the things you are aware of in most smaller towns in Italy especially the South that their population is shrinking and their are empty protected buildings. Some have a roof around them protecting the pavement from falling masonry. This old walled city and some of the walls have later been made into parts of new buildings, including a city gate tower and a turret that is part of a 4 story block of flats. Walking along the dockland there are fishing boats , yachts as well as the cruise ship docks. A memorial to those who died in the Great War looks like a statue to ancient dying Roman legionnaires. A statue of Giacomo Matteotti 1885 to 1924 a socialist politician who w...