Via Giulia

Before we learned about Via Giulia I never realized how many streets we went down that just did not make sense. The streets that curve around to lead into a dead-end and the funny placement of the sidestreets. Living in America, a country that is so new I never took into consideration that a long time ago they were not very concerned about making their streets perfect. If a map of a city in the U.S.was compared to Rome the differece would be very apparent.Via Giula was a nice place to go, I was surprised how many churches were on that one street. There was a church we passed with skulls all over it. The more I looked the more I noticed that the outside was a little disturbing for a church. I thought that that was probably a medieval church. I liked how unlike many of the streets in Rome Via Giulia was wide giving us more room to walk when cars went by. The arch was one of my favorite parts; I liked how it was supposed to be this great bridge built by Michelangelo but it never was finished. I think that Via Giulia was a good plan and a step in the right direction for city planning.