Pantheon

After the Colosseum, the Pantheon is my next favorite building. Rick Steve's audio tour said that if you wanted to know what it felt like to be in Ancient Rome is to visit the Pantheon because it is in it's original state and looks exactly what it looked like all those years ago. Once again, the brilliant engineers and architectures of Rome created the dome. The Pantheon was so impressive that it inspired some of the world's most famous buildings (Ex: US Capitol's dome) When you walk in, you are taken back by it's enormous size. You look up to see this massive dome with a hole in the top that lights up the whole building. The Pantheon originally was a temple built for the Roman Gods but now is a Catholic Church. I found it interesting that when it rains, since there is a hole in the top, the rain pours in the church and if you look at the ground you can see holes to let the water out. Pretty spectacular place.