Duration: 2.5 hours

S. Maria in Tempulo, S.S. Nereo e Achilleo, Baths of Caracalla

When one thus beholds an object two thousand years old and more, but so manifoldly and thoroughly altered by the changes of time, but, sees nevertheless, the same soil, the same mountains, and often indeed the same walls and columns, one becomes, as it were, a contemporary of the great counsels of Fortune.