Busy Day

Today I spent the whole day looking about. On the itinerary were:

The Circus Maximus (best seen from the north west side)
Santa Anastasia (great relic chapel)
San Giorgio in Velabro (& and the funny looking arch of Janus)
Santa Maria in Cosmedin (really neat choir)
Santa Sabina (very beautiful choir and apse)
Sant' Alessio (awesome relic chapel of the stairs where he was martyred)
St. Peter's through a key hole
Sant' Anselmo (very beautiful church, who cares if it was "only" built in 1900; freakish new age music playing in store, couldn't get out fast enough)
Santa Prisca (rather faded)
Long walk along the Parco della resistenza (filthy, and full of non-euro bums; not that I like any sort of hobbos, but at least the Italian, Romanian, and Gypsy beggars fit in, and look like models for a 17th century landscape)
Porta San Paolo (the most beautiful gate, as far as I am concerned, is the Porta Pia, especially because of the inscription)
The pyramid (rather ho-hum)
A long walk along via Marmorata (completely devoid of character and charm)
Ponte Sublicio (this is not one of the better views of the Tiber)
The Great Port of Ripa (where is it??)
San Francesco (incredible church! Bernini altar! Incorrupt saint asleep beneath a side altar!)
Santa Cecilia (this was supposed to be the highlight of my trip, but an American banshee in a "modified" benedictine habit was exceedingly rude to me, and did not allow me to venerate St. Cecilia.)
Dinner (another more decently priced restaurant in Trastevere discovered)
Home.
I am back in Toronto this Monday afternoon for a whole week. See you there.