- painting
- mechanisms
- sculpting
- human anatomy
In the museum, it showed mostly mechanisms, but it also showed human anatomy.
One of the inventions was a pulley where the weight on it was heavy but when you cranked it, it felt like nothing.
Leonardo is known as the all-time famous painter that painted the Mona Lisa. But actually, he did many other great things like these:
In the museum, it showed mostly mechanisms, but it also showed human anatomy. One of the inventions was a pulley where the weight on it was heavy but when you cranked it, it felt like nothing.
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Luigi and I go in the Metro a lit. In the Metro trains there are ads and one funny show: Rubicchio. Rubicchio is basically the only thing on that is not a commercial.
Basically, in the show all they do is smash a magic ball on his head and he gets teleported to somewhere, does something, and gets teleported back. This is a story I wrote.
Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. As you may know, my name is Quacks. Although, this time, I don't like to quack: I like to meow. Here is my story for today. Today, I went to Campo Dei Fiori. First, I took the train to a stop called Trastevere. Then, I took the tram to Campo Dei Fiori. I had a rice ball from Forno Campo Dei Fiori. Yum! After lunch, I went to a place that sells lots of things with marzipan and the only chocolate chip cookies I've seen in Europe. The place is called, La Dolceroma. I ate my chocolate chip cookie at an ancient Roman monument that used to be a fish market. Near the fish market were 3 columns that used to belong to a temple of Apollo. Quack! Wait. Did I just quack? Today we went to a church made by Borromini, a church made by Bernini, and the Crypt of the Capuchin Monks. I think that there are the bones of over 500,000 Capuchin monks in the crypt. The monks had to make room for the new bones in the cemetery so they decided to decorate the crypt and the church with the old bones.
I had a Margarita pizza for lunch. It was yummy. The gelato I had was at a fancy gelateria/pastry place/coffee place. I got a cioccolato MorningIn the morning we got on the metro and rode to Piazza del Popolo. I would have to say, today was not complicated. Piazza del Popolo had an obelisk.
We also went to the Pantheon. The Pantheon is one of the only churches that is perfectly round. Today was a really fun day. Oh, and by the way, I had gnocchi for lunch and ate at Rome's best gelateria! The Vatican is a city, a state, and a country. We got to the Vatican by foot and metro. When we got off the metro, we headed for the Vatican Museum. In Italian, it is Musei Vaticani.
Outside, there are marble lions, a giant artichoke (I don't know why!) a fountain with undrinkable water, and a big bronze ball. The Sistine Chapel had paintings on the ceilings by Michelangelo. The museum also has Egyptian things like sarcophaguses, Roman things that look like Egyptian things, and really fancy ceilings. To get home, we walked, used the train, and used the metro. Today was really fun. Getting gelato was my favorite part of the day. We got gelato after we went to the colosseum and had lunch.
We took the train to get to the Colosseum. We got off at a stop called Colosseo. We didn't go inside the Colosseum today. We just walked around it. We saw fake gladiators wanting to get you to get your picture taken with you, and junk food stands. Today we went to St. Peters square. St. Peters Square has a big pink obelisk (even though it doesn't look pink). Inside of the square there are also two so called "magic circles". When you stand on them it looks like there is only 1 column for each row when there are actually 4 columns for each row. Bernini designed St. Peters Square.
MorningThe day we drove from Praiano to Rome, we got up early and ate breakfast. Then we took all our luggage and got into the car. We rode for 1 hour and 30 minutes and then the kids played video games for 30 minutes. AfternoonFor lunch I had penne with tomato sauce at an Autogrill (a café on the highway). Then we drove for 2 more hours. EveningIn the evening, we looked for a gelateria but instead of a gelateria we found a minimarket.
Matera is a town that used to be all caves but is now houses. And the insides of the houses are still caves.
When we drove in to Matera, we parked near a Tourist Office. When we went into the Tourist Office, the man tried to convince us to get a tour. But we tried to buy the map; he kept interrupting us so it took us about 5 minutes to get the map! When we got the map, we headed down toward a restaurant called Cola Cola. At Cola Cola the kids had yummy pasta with butter and the dad had meat and the mom had pasta with fava beans. When we had finished there, we climbed down and then climbed up a different set of steps. We went to the cathedral and we asked the lady if the cathedral was open. It turns out it wasn't. On the way down, we passed by a Jeep that had gone up (or down) steps. Also on the way down, we stopped by a museum that showed how the people lived in Matera. The people often kept animals like chickens, donkeys, mules, and horses in their houses. The family often had around 8 or 9 children. The smallest children would sleep in a trough at the foot of the big bed where the parents would sleep. There were 4 rooms in the house we saw. One was full of all the stuff, the second was the kitchen, and the last two were mostly empty. There was also a ginormous cistern that people had thrown lots of coins into. I thought Matera was really really cool because it was built around a cathedral that was on the very top of the hill so all the houses built up the hill. |
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