After Greece was Italy, where we spent Christmas with the Pope and some sunshine!!
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thehalls > The Amphitheater at Pompeii is the oldest and best preserved in the world (c. 80 BC). This was the site of a famous riot with neighboring Nuceria in 59 AD which caused Nero to ban the games for 10 years. Precisely ten years after its reopening, Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried the entire city in ash (Dec. 28, 2003).
thehalls > Italy (Vatican City, Rome, & Pompeii)--2003 > Shantall on the St Angelo bridge over the Tiber in front of the Castel St Angelo (Hadrian's Tomb) with St Peter's Basilica in the background--Rome (Dec 25, 2003)
thehalls > Cameron and Shantall in front of the Pantheon. Although the Pantheon was built circa 118 AD, its construction is shrouded in mystery and no one knows it’s exact age. Architects from Michelangelo onward have marveled at how the Romans were able to build a perfectly spherical dome of poured concrete that remained unsurpassed in size until the 20th century—Rome (Dec 25, 2003).
thehalls > Cameron in front of Raphael's painting in the Papal Apartments of Maxentius drowning in the Tiber River while retreating from Constantine in 312 AD --Vatican City (Dec 27, 2003).
thehalls > Michelangelo's Ceiling in the Sistine Chapel--Vatican City (Dec 27, 2003).
thehalls > Italy (Vatican City, Rome, & Pompeii)--2003 > Cameron in front of the Chapel of the Cathedra by Bernini which displays the ivory-covered chair where tradition has it that St Peter sat and taught the Roman Christians, St Peter's Basilica-Vatican
thehalls > Italy (Vatican City, Rome, & Pompeii)--2003 > Cameron getting scolded by a securrity guard for standing on a bench in front of Raphael's School of Athens in the Papal Apartments--Vatican City (Dec 27, 2003)
thehalls > Italy (Vatican City, Rome, & Pompeii)--2003 > Cameron admiring the crowd in St Peter's Square in the Vatican during the Pope's blessing on Christmas day, Vatican City--Rome (Dec 25, 2003)
thehalls > Italy (Vatican City, Rome, & Pompeii)--2003 > Cameron at the Alter of the Confession with Bernini's Baroque Baldachin supporting the canopy over St Peter's Tomb, in the center of Michelangelo's Dome, St Peter's Basilica, Rome (Dec 26, 2003)
Cameron and Shantall in front of the Pantheon. Although the Pantheon was built circa 118 AD, its construction is shrouded in mystery and no one knows it’s exact age. Architects from Michelangelo onward have marveled at how the Romans were able to build a perfectly spherical dome of poured concrete that remained unsurpassed in size until the 20th century—Rome (Dec 25, 2003).
> Cameron and Shantall in front of the Pantheon. Although the Pantheon was built circa 118 AD, its construction is shrouded in mystery and no one knows it’s exact age. Architects from Michelangelo onward have marveled at how the Romans were able to build a perfectly spherical dome of poured concrete that remained unsurpassed in size until the 20th century—Rome (Dec 25, 2003).
Cameron and Shantall in front of the Pantheon. Although the Pantheon was built circa 118 AD, its construction is shrouded in mystery and no one knows it’s exact age. Architects from Michelangelo onward have marveled at how the Romans were able to build a perfectly spherical dome of poured concrete that remained unsurpassed in size until the 20th century—Rome (Dec 25, 2003).
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