A Few Views of Rome

I'd been wanting to put a few pictures online for friends and family. I'll put a brief description with each one. The elephant obelisk thing is in front of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, just a few blocks away from the pantheon and St. Louis de France. After my class, I walk along the bank of the Tiber, which is in the second picture. On the opposite bank is the castel san Angelo, over which St. Michael appeared sheathing a sword after St. Gregory the Great prayed for the end of a tremendous plague. The plague ended that day. An underground passage leads from Vatican City to the Castle and various popes have had to flee to its defenses in times of great unrest.