OK, this is a bit of a mess – its from last year (2017) and I haven’t done much to organize it yet!
Coming soon!
Hotel Maddalena in Rome.The Pantheon, one block from our hotel.PantheonOcculus. I just like saying it.Don’t believe the historians. This was built by aliens.Another pleasant day, if you like the feeling of searing flesh.Spanish StepsThat’s 105 old-school degrees.Santa Maria MaddalenaPalatine Hill.The Gladiatrix.Underground, the ColosseumGallery of Maps, Vatican CityThe Bramante Staircase, Vatican.Looking out at Rome from the Bramante Staircase, Vatican.St. Peter’s Basilica, from the Vatican gardens. True story: we come out of the Vatican Museum on our tour, onto this patio with the above view of the dome of St. Peter’s. One of the tour group members, an American, asks the tour guide “so, is any part of St. Peter’s still used as a church?”St. Peter’s Basilica, VaticanArch of TitusPassageway beneath the ColosseumTerraza del PincioColosseumSt. Peter’s BasilicaSupermodelView from the Borghese Gardens
Gardens at the Pitti PalaceThe bluish door to the right is significant to anyone who read Inferno, by Dan Brown. This is the door, near the grotto at the Pitti Palace, where Langdon escaped into the Vasari Corridor. The Corridor (which is closed to tourists) runs from the Palace, across the Ponte Vecchio, to the Uffizzi.
