Last free day

Today was our last day to do whatever we wanted in Rome before the last hurrah tomorrow and an early checkout on Wednesday. I got up this morning and walked along the river to go see one of the last churches on my list:  Santa Maria del Popolo, Our lady of the People, in Piazza del Popolo. There is a famous Caravaggio painting in one of the chapels called Paul on the road to Damascus portraying his conversion.

The lovely walk along the river

piazza del popolo

the church

On the other side of the river for the walk back. The place with the red chairs is where we went down to the river a few nights ago.

Another view of St Peter's coming back to the apt

And now for some views on the lovely terrace we discovered just under a week ago. Eating dinner up here when it's cooled off a bit is wonderful. It's a bummer we didn't discover this earlier.

St Peter's from the terrace

down below

the castle: castel sant'angelo

Oh and later that day we went back and finally saw the French church! It was so exciting because all the inscriptions and captions inside were in French and not Italian and I could understand them! The famous paintings by Caravaggio in there portray the calling of St Matthew which is what the most famous painting is called.