Tempietto

I only saw one building while I was in Rome. I figure I’ll take the train back when I find better walking shoes. However, the building is one of my favorites, the Tempietto. It is a small chapel in the San Pietro in Montorio, right up the hill from Trastevere. The chapel is perfectly balanced and the proportions are amazing, but more importantly, it moves me. The setting is perfect, which I didn’t know from studying it in school. It is just so optimistic and cute that I want to put it in my pocket and take it home.