Chapter 319: First Sight of Rome!
The Orvieto Church is also a landmark here, with an architectural style similar to that of Siena, a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles, and the same striped pattern of marble. Zhang Feng went late, the square was empty, and the atmosphere was suddenly a lot more solemn.
Looking for a restaurant, Zhang Feng planned to taste the white wine here, Orvieto's own white wine is very famous, because it is made from a blend of three local grapes, and with a meat plate, it attracts countless foodies. The wine is good wine, but when it comes to the meat board, the appearance is simply a compliment. All kinds of dried meat are layered on top of each other, but good looks don't mean it's delicious. Raw ham is salty and a little fishy, it is estimated that few Chinese are used to eating this plate, Zhang Feng in line with the principle of not wasting food no matter what, so he is simply struggling to eat this meal.
Orvieto at night, the calm of isolation, the vicissitudes of the silent stone road are fully revealed.
Seeing the car from head to tail, Zhang Feng was a little embarrassed, because he had seen a lot of such looks along the way, it seems that parking like this is not a matter in Italy, and you can move out after two hits, this is "the so-called car is just a tool".
When he was about to leave the city, Zhang Feng ran into a Chinese restaurant again, and at first Zhang Feng never thought that he could eat Chinese food in such a remote place as Orvieto. Although he had just had dinner at Jiaotang, Zhang Feng was so excited that he rushed in.
You must know that he has eaten Western food for 8 days, and Zhang Feng missed the deliciousness of Chinese food at this time, and he was inexplicably excited to pick up chopsticks. The name of the restaurant is very special, just a Zhejiang character, and the owner is from Zhejiang. Zhang Feng ordered all home-cooked food, but it tasted absolutely windy, and the taste was so good that it exploded. At the next table, I also met a Chinese family working in the local area, but I also didn't expect that there would be compatriots working in such a small old city as Orvieto.
After eating enough, Zhang Feng finished today's wandering, today's release, and today I was free, and then buried in the night here, wanting to find a good dream.
Zhang Feng didn't expect that the dining environment for breakfast the next day was very special, and it was actually arranged in the cellar in the farm, and a picture of a vampire in Castlevania flashed by.
The hostess was very welcoming and told Zhang Feng that all the pastries and jams were made by her, such as the fake Homemade.
After breakfast, I looked outside, the morning fog had completely cleared, the sun had come out, and Orvieto in the distance was completely in front of me.
Before parting, she exchanged a few words with the hostess, and she also gave Zhang Feng a few handmade aromatherapy soaps made by herself.
The next stop, Rome, was also the last stop of Zhang Feng's trip to Italy.
The last stop, Rome, is 122 kilometers long, and the feeling of racing all the way to 180 yards is like driving with a rope, and it will not take long to arrive. Driving is not recommended in the city, with congested roads and scarce parking spaces making public transport a better option. Zhang Feng planned to check in at the hotel first and then return the car.
The graffiti that can be seen all over the streets of Rome is simply heartbreaking, and the folk feel is the most powerful of any Italian city I have ever visited.
Beetle on the side of the road, 80s style. Old trams.
Zhang Feng drops off the car at Termini Railway Station, so book the Internoroma Hotel close to Termini Train Station. The hotel is located in a residential area and the location is not too easy to find. But the win is in the big place, well equipped with a kitchen.
After Zhang Feng completed the check-in procedures, he returned the car to Termini Railway Station, and the return location was not easy to find, in fact, it was located in a parking lot near the train station, and Zhang Feng went around several times to find it.
The most terrible thing is that the road near the train station is a one-way street, and in order to find the parking lot where the car is located, Zhang Feng repeated the same red street light intersection back and forth three times.
After returning the car, I bought a two-day ROMA PASS at the convenience store at the train station, including one attraction free and priority, many others have discounts, and at the same time as a bus subway card, unlimited times.
Coming out of the Vatican subway, I met many nuns = women and gods = fathers dressed up along the way.
Follow the flow of people until you pass through the double arches at the end and you will enter St. Peter's Square.
Zhang Feng's arrangement on the first day was that the Vatican was the main attraction, and he made an appointment for the Vatican Museums in the afternoon, and the subway went straight to the theme. The queue was really scary, and Zhang Feng kept glad that he had made an appointment.
As soon as he entered, Zhang Feng saw the huge obelisk in the center of St. Peter's Square, but after realizing it, he realized that the Vatican Museums were not here, and he had to go around from the other end. Looking at the dense flow of visitors, thinking that this point is not the peak period, Zhang Feng's heart trembled.
Zhang Feng walked around the outside of the city wall to see the Vatican Museums.
With a total area of 55,000 square meters, the Vatican Museums is one of the earliest museums in the world, with 12 exhibition halls and 5 art galleries, bringing together ancient relics of Greece and Rome and the essence of Renaissance art, most of which are priceless. After inquiring, I got the advice to rent a Chinese explainer, 7 euros / person, otherwise I don't understand what I'm looking at at all, after all, the difference between culture and sectarian relations is too great.
The famous Courtyard of Pinecone in the Vatican Museums. In the center is the sculptor Arnaldo's Broken Earth, completed in 1990.
The north end resembles a large niche and was completed in 1565 by the architect Ligorio in the style of the dome of the Pantheon.
Of course the Pine Cone Courtyard takes its name from this huge bronze pine cone, nearly 4 meters high, which was originally placed near the Pantheon and was only moved here in 1608.
Starting from the Pine Cone Garden, you can enter the various pavilions inside.
I just saw several sculptures, and Ding Ding was broken, which was really insulting! Zhang Feng was very unhappy, these guys were already small, and they were broken in the end, and they didn't make up for it.
After visiting such a udo museum, Zhang Feng found that in fact, the museum belongs to the type that is better than seeing it when it is heard for a hundred times, and it is better to see it than to hear it a thousand times. The Silent Thinker from the history books, the Book of Genesis, the Pericles sculpture and so on are all genuine here. There are more photos on the Internet in the museum's collections, and Zhang Feng came here to witness the feelings, feel the atmosphere of those arts with his heart, and strive to gain some insights from them, and then improve his sentiments and integrate them into the food.
The first famous sculpture is called Laocoon, which is one of the treasures of the Vatican Museums. Laocoon, a priest in the city of Troy, was sentenced to death by Athena for opposing the Greeks dragging a Trojan horse into the city of Troy, and two giant pythons entangled Laocoon and his two sons. 210