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Monday: We will depart for Rome on the 16th from Cleveland (or your
particular port of departure).
Tuesday: We will fly overnight and arrive in
Rome the next morning at the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (Fiumicino).
Our private coach will pick us up at the airport and take us to the Villa
Clara, located in a beautiful park in Casali Valley in the Aurelia District,
near the Vatican. After some time to rest, we will take an orientation tour
by bus around the city of Rome. |

The Roman Obelisk in Piazza della Republica |
| We will stop at the Roman Forum in the center of Rome and
tour the ruins at the heart of ancient Rome. |

The Roman Forum from the Capitoline Hill |
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The Roman Forum from the Palatine Hill |

The Arch of Titus in the Forum |
| We will meet the bus in Piazza Venezia and walk by the
Imperial Forums of Julius Caesar, Nerva, Vespasian, Augustus and Trajan
(with Trajan’s Column). If we have time, we will visit these forums.
Otherwise, there will be an optional trip to these places later in the trip. |

The Capitoline Hill from the Esquiline Hill |

The Forum of Caesar |

The Column of Trajan |

Relief Sculpture from the Forum of Nerva |
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The Forum of Augustus |

The Forum of Trajan |