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Italy and Sicily 2008
Pictures from the 2008 tour of Southern Italy and Sicily.
Date(s): 4/1/08. Album by Yesterdays Jewels. Photos by © 2006 Yesterdays Jewels. 1 - 18 of 79 Total. 6509 Visits.
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Dome ceiling at top of Vatican Museum stairwell

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Stairwell in Vatican Museum--this is impressive, no matter which way you are going.

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Old estruscan oil lamp display in Vatican Museum

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Tapestry hanging in a Vatican museum hallway.  HUGE!  15' x 15', at least.
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Statue in recess of outside Vatican wall

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Vatican facade

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Vatican courtyard.  I don't know what the ball signifies, but it was neat!
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Ceiling in one of the Vatican museum hallways--did you know there are around 20 museums in the Vatican?  Yep.  We saw many ceilings like this.  All painted and accented in 22K gold!

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Vatican Museum facade

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The Pieta by Michelangelo--a truly amazing sculpture and the only one that he signed.

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St Peter's Basilica and rooftop.  There are 144 life-sized statues around the rooftop.  What an amazing architectural feat this building is!

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St Peter's Square.

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Large statue of St Paul in the courtyard of St. Peter's Square

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Staturary atop St. Peter's.

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Inside St. Peter's Basilica

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Tradition has it that these were the chains the bound Peter in Rome.

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Michelangelo's Moses statue at St. Peter in Chains Church.  7 ft tall sitting down!  This statue was one of the subjects of my honors thesis in college and I couldn't wait to see it in person.  Worth the wait!

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Gladiators on their way to re-enact old times.
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Linda, Beautiful photographs.
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Rob, Fri, 5 Mar 2010 4:32AM
That's like a dream come true it's unbelieveable I can only imagine so beautiful
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Cindy, Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:26PM
The pictures are amazing! I can't even begin to imagine what it was like to actually be there.  An architecture junkie's dream!
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Michelle, Fri, 11 Apr 2008 6:50PM
 
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