What we saw?

With many thanks to my colleague Bryce Meacham from our university's Department of Music, I can share with you a list of the numerous sites we saw while on our eighteen day journey through France, Greece, and Italy.

August 19

Walked by Petit Palais and Grand Palais to the Alexander III Bridge

Hotel des Invalides (Military Museum) and Napoleon’s Tomb

Eiffel Tower

River cruise on the Seine

August 20

Train to Versailles

Toured the Chateau

Gardens including the Latona Fountain and Grand Canal

Grand Trianon

Pettit Trianon

Marie Antoinette Theater

French Pavilion

Temple of Love

Hameau de la Reine (Queen’s Hamlet)

Gardens including the Grotto of Thetis, Orangerie

August 21

Train to Chartres

Chartres Cathedral

Train back to Paris

Saint Denis

Sacre Couer

Montmartre area

August 22

Mass at Notre Dame

St. Chapelle

Drive to The Somme

Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial

Thiepval Memorial

Ulster Tower

Dinner at Flunch

August 23

Louvre

Arc de Triomphe

Champs Elysees

August 24

Flight to Athens on Olympic Air (Five Star service!!!!!)

Dinner

The Pnyx

August 25

Mars' Hill

Acropolis

Theater of Dionysus

Acropolis Museum

Temple of Zeus

Gyros at Monastiraki

National Archeological Museum

Agora and Temple of Hephaestus

August 26

Delphi

Temple of Apollo

Amphitheater

Stadium for Pythian Games

Museum

Lunch in modern Delphi with views of Bay of Corinth

Stop in Arachova

August 27

EasyJet flight to Rome

Lunch around Termini (Rome's railroad station)

Train to Florence

Some walked around town and went to the Baptistery

August 28

Santa Maria Novella

Ufizzi Gallery

Met at Loggia on Piazza de la Signoria

Santa Maria del Carmine

Brancacci Chapel

Outside of Baptistery–Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise

Santa Maria del Fiore–Duomo

Palazzo Medici–Riccardi

Gozzoli’s Procession of the Magi

August 29

Mass at Santa Croce

Accademia di Belle Arti

Michelangelo’s David

Cappella dei Principia at San Lorenzo

Sarcophagus of the Medici family

Florence Baptistery or Battistero di San Giovanni

August 30

Train to Rome

Catacombs of San Callisto

Baptistry of St. John Lateran

Scala Sancta–Holy Steps

St. John Lateran

August 31

San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains)

Colosseum

Constantine’s Arch

Palatine

Domus Augustana–Imperial Palace

Circus Maximus

Roman Forum

Arch of Titus

Basilica of Maxentius

Temple of Antonius and Faustina

Temple of Vesta

Temple of Castor and Pollux

Temple of Saturn

Curia (Roman Senate)

Arch of Septimus Severus

Piazza di Campidoglio

Bronze Statue of Marcus Aurelius

National Monument of Victor Emmanuel

Trajan’s Column

Borghese Gallery

September 1

Santa Maria del Popolo

Ars Pacis Augustae

Piazza Novano

Sant'Agnese in Agone

San Luigi di Francesi

Parthenon

Santa Maria Sopra Minerva

Saint Ignatius Loyola

Church of the Gesù (Chiesa del Gesù)

Trevi Fountain

September 2

Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martir (St. Mary of Angels and Martyrs)

Santa Maria della Vittoria

Capuchin Crypt at Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezion

Papal Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls (Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura)

September 3

Vatican Museum

St. Peter’s Basilica