Hey, I visited a crypt.

First, a disclaimer for this day. I'm a big fan of history. So I found this particular day of our journey particularly interesting. Hopefully you find it interesting as well.

I won't go into too much detail about every single place we visited, but through the course of the day we made it to the ruins of a Roman arena, the ruins of some Roman baths, the Saint Etienne du Mont chapel, the Pantheon, and a medieval museum. I found it quite peculiar how little regard this city gives to the Roman ruins. The arena was a small, underwhelming park at the edge of the city. The baths were in the basement of the medieval museum. Mind you these ruins are thousands of years old. Us Americans revel in the history of a relic that's just a hundred years old. So these landmarks to me were unfathomable.

Ruins of the Roman arena. 

I should also note our visit to the Pantheon, which was dedicated to the great men (and women) of France. I loved the paintings depicting the history of France, and the crypt of the great men and women located in the basement was eerily enticing. Some people thought it was creepy. I thought it was pretty cool.

Also, fun side note, here is a nice little video of our teacher Herman standing in front of the Pantheon instructing us on, well, the Pantheon:

Until next time and au revoir. M