A walk in Rome: The Trevi Fountain, Pantheon and Maxxi Museum.

This sunken effect makes the Pantheon seem like a sentry amid the noise and pace of modern times. It is sturdy in appearance and seems almost stubborn in this setting. It has dug its heels in and has spent hundreds of years refusing to be destroyed like it’s predecessors. It is different than the other ancients in my opinion. Perhaps because it is not cordoned off like the Colosseum and the Forum are. It is just… there, right in the middle of the McDonald’s signs and it is insouciant. If the Pantheon was a movie character, it would be Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino”… get off my lawn!