Tiber River Bike Tour

Tiber River tour by bikes? Sure!

First stop: Villa Giulia, sadly we weren't able to go in...but we could look at it from the lobby.

More of Villa Giulia



Grabbing our bikes to continue on our way

Pit stop at Renzo Piano's opera house

Home of the 1960 Olympic games: Rome! Here are some of the pavilions

The Olympic track, surrounded by a bunch of naked sautes, doing various Olympic activities

Imitating one of the statues...such a tourist.

Stopping to look at something that Beatrice is explaining

The Ara Pacis in Museo dell' Ara Pacis

The museum also happens to host some modern art exhibits

oooo...modern.

The Museum, built by Richard Meier Architects, the first modern building in some huge-odd number of years to be built in Rome

Fountains in front of the museum. They were great to be by on such a hot day

An artist (insert name here when I figure it out) power-washed the banks of the Tiber River, in the form of 12 giant she wolves. Here is one of them; they have been fading over time, not helped by the flooding of the Tiber River.

Riding bikes is tiring...gelato anyone? Oh, when we were getting gelato, this woman (American) came up to us and asked where she could get some "good ice cream...like the kind they have at McDonalds." I'll let you be the judge of that statement.

The Bike Gang. Fierce. (me, Lindsey, and Lyndsey)

For your viewing/listening pleasure: inside of the modern art exhibit at the Ara Pacis museum. There were some cool sound installations- that's the weird murmer in the background.