Capitoline Hill

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Capitoline Hill

Following on from the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill we carried on walking through the Forum and came to the Capitoline Hill, this was all in the first morning and we were ready for a break so we stopped for lunch at a small cafe before returning to have a proper look.

The statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza del Campidoglio survived destruction by the Christian Church in the middle ages because they mistakenly believed it to be of Emperor Constantine who was baptised a Christian and proclaimed Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire.

After lunch we walked up 124 steps to the Basilica Santa Maria in Aracoeli where there were some great views over Rome, sadly you can't get straight back to the Piazza del Campidoglio so we walked all the way down again. 

We took a different route back, through the Forum to the Colosseum and after a stop for a drink at another cafe, we finished the afternoon on an open top tour bus to give us some idea of where we'd want to go in the rest of our visit.