As Dalia had a number of things to get done at home on a bright February Sunday, I decided to venture out with Aleksander and mostly by happenstance, we ended up at the Capitolini Museums, overlooking Piazza Venezia.
We’re both intrepid walkers and have never shied away from taking Aleksander for long meandering walks – even going back to his early days of -20 Ottawa adventures. That being said, as he ages and develops, his level of insistence to leave his stroller tends to get stronger. It was a bit of a risk heading this deep into the city without much of a lifeline, but what you gonna do, stare at the tv all day (when this is the option?!)
The Capitolini Museum has long been recommended to us as one of Rome’s best lowkey museums and it’s also part of the city’s civic sites that are accessible at a discount for residents. It was relatively easy to get set up with the account and only took a bit more time on first arrival to register for a year for 5€.
Aleksander snoozed as I hauled his stroller up and down all stairs within sight. The exhibitions were spacious, welcoming and not too dense for a dad with stroller in tow. Within an hour, I got a good sense of some of the main artistic sign posts in the city’s history and headed back outside for a head start home before he woke up.
It was an afternoon well spent and the kind of visit you think you’ll always get to but then a year has passed by and you haven’t gotten to it yet. As we almost hit the half-way mark of our time here, it’s exactly the kind of activity we have to prioritize squeezing in.
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