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This was the steam table of a 
resturant. It looked very modern.

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Sandy and Pat in Pompeii

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Touring the Vatican museum, 
this statue of Laocoön and His 
Sons (Between 160 BC and 20 BC ) 
was the first thing we saw.

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She was our wonderful tour guide. 

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The Vatican museurm used to 
be the Pope's residence. 
The ceilings were fabulous.

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Pope Clement XIII had fig 
leaves added to most of the
classical statues to hide 
the genitals.

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The ceilings were fantastic. T
hey are all flat but look 3 dimentional.

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We also got to tour the Sistine 
Chapel, but no pictures are
allowed. We found that the fig leaf 
campaign had also painted clothes 
on some of the people in Michaelangelo's
Last Judgement painting in the chapel.

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The Michelangelo Pieta is behind a glass protector.

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Pat asked about John XXIII, 
and found him in this glass coffin. 
He has been covered with wax.

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Here is Sandy inside 
Saint Peter's Basilica. 

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This is the mail altar seen 
on TV broadcasts of papal
masses.

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Under the dome of St. Peters

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Pat outside St. Peter's

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Top of St. Pau's outside the walls. 
It is called "outside the walls" 
because it is outside the wall that 
once surrounded Rome. 

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beautiful ceiling inside St. Paul's

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Flash pictures were allowed 
because all the paintings are 
really mosaics.

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Sandy and Pat outside SaintPaul's outside the walls.

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The Pyramid of Cestius is an 
ancient pyramid in Rome. 
The pyramid was built about 
18 BC-12 BC as a tomb for 
Gaius Cestius Epulo.

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Part of the wall taken from 
the bus (therefore reflections)

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Driving between Rome and 
Florence, we stopped at the 
walled town of Orvieto.

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Orvieto Cathedral

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There is a fantastic 
Etruscan museum in Orvieto.