Museums and Sweets ?
May 22nd, 2007 by Danne75
Sunday was a really great day. Well, it was, until one of my flatmates woke me up from my extremely deep and relaxing slumber. He reminded me that this was the last day to go to the [tag]museums for free[/tag]. Free is a magic word so I listened very carefully after that. Yes we were going to go to Villa Borghese today. Finally, I thought after having been here for 8 months I would finally see it. So we got the metro at Vittorio Emanuele. Then we got off at [tag]Barberini[/tag] and then got a bus from [tag]Via Veneto[/tag]. This however turned out to be a rather round about way of doing things. Bus 910 from Termini stops right outside the park, steps away from the museum.
So we were about to see the museum with all the art inside until………………signs notifying us dashed my hopes. The museum was full. No more tickets were available. Oh well we decided to go to Villa Giulia instead. This museum which used to be the [tag]villa of pope Julius III[/tag] houses an immense collection of statues, vases and other various items made from terracotta and especially of [tag]Etruscan[/tag] origin. There are also many bronze articles on display and my favourite bit in this museum like all the others was looking at all the stuff made from gold.
The villa also has gardens which are shaded and a few small fountains. The one at the entrance is home to a family of turtles. After the museum I had built up a bit of an appetite from all the walking around so I decided to go to Fassi. This is another fantastic gelateria and the ice cream is absolutely amazing. They also have other sweet stuff on sale besides the ice cream. Tiramisu and some other really yummy looking cakes are on sale too. The prices are pretty fair for what you are getting. My ice cream was a small and it only cost € 1.50 I got three flavours and I could have had a dollop of cream too but I decided that the ice cream was enough.
We then set off to a pasticceria. This one is also located near [tag]Piazza Vittorio[/tag]. I highly recommend getting a Bavaresi and anything stuffed with cream and ricotta cheese. This great pasticeriais located on Via di Statuto. The prices are very good and the quality of the dolce is excellent.