Today we had a very relaxed day only seeing 2 Churches and 1 Museum! Unprecedented. We are cracking the public transport system which is helpful for our feet. We visited the recently opened Altar of Peace which had a special modern building built to accomodate it. It has caused a lot of controversy but I think it is very beautiful. The Altar of Peace is a stunning carved marble altar to celebrate the era of peace that Augustus ushered in - peaceful that is if you weren't a barbarian.
We have been doing a lot jewellery window shopping and having long lunches with rather large glasses of wine -it's a hard life. In the afternoon we tried to save money by going to the supermarket but that didn't seem to work out so well - everything looks so delicious and Hugh keeps on drinking our big bottles of cheap red wine (4 euros for 2 litres). We saw a nice Borromini designed cupola Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone and a pretty Augustinian Church called funnily enough Sant'Agostino! After all that spirituality we needed a a nice roof garden in which to indulge our sins - this was in the lovely Hotel Raphael near the Piazza Navona - just a perfect end to the day.
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