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Happy travels, Phill, Shellie, Bix, Brooke

Vatican City and Rome 2015 Day 2

Mobile blogging app is driving me crazy.  It reset my draft when I switched to another app.  I will make a much better entry tomorrow, but for now here are some pictures from today.

U.S. With the dome of St.Peter's Basilica behind us:


The Bramante staircase and explanation:r



Rafael's The Transfiguration:


the Doge of Venice (for Bix):


An unfinished painting by Leonardo diVinci - note the person done but the lion is just a sketch and the background is missing:



Huge maps:



Lots of paintings by Michelangelo and Other Renaissance artists,including the Sistine Chapel (no photos allowed but I'll pull something off the internet).

And the inside of the St. Peter's Basilica, including Michelangelo's famous Pieta carved out of a single block of marble.


Other sights from St.Peter's:









then we went back to the hotl to eat and then we walked to the Pantheon.







We finished with a rooftop dinner at Circus at the Fortyseven Hotel.









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