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<\/a><\/p>\nBob buys tickets for the Metro to Vatican City at the biglietteria (ticket machine)<\/p>\n
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ST. PETER’S SQUARE<\/h3>\n
By 9am we found ourselves standing in St. Peter’s square\u00a0which just so happens to be round and capable of holding more than 80,000 people. While here we decided to climb to the cupola atop the dome and get a bird’s eye view of the city.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stone lions and\u00a0Swiss guards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 140 saints stand atop the colonnades, supported by\u00a0240 huge columns, four deep.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The world’s largest church and the world’s tallest dome at 448 feet tall. A statue of Jesus Christ stands front and center.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Feeling frisky, we waived our right to take the elevator up the first 230 steps. On our way up, we noticed that steel bars had been installed in the narrow windows, presumably to deter littering or worse. The walls began to bend with the shape of the dome and we felt our chests tighten. Behind us a couple coaxed and dragged their panicked\u00a0children upwards towards their goal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And then we were at the atrium, walls adorned with mosaics and the dome overhead. Camille pulled her scarf over her head, momentarily connecting\u00a0with her Catholic roots.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We looked down at the main altar, festooned in vibrant imagery. \u00a0Later we went and found\u00a0Michelangelos’ beautiful\u00a0Piet\u00e0 in one of the side chapels.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The view from approximately 400 feet.<\/p>\n Full of endorphins and very pleased with themselves, Camille and Bob squint into the camera from the cupola with St. Peter’s Square down below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Camille looks pretty happy about leaving those claustrophobic walls behind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On our way down we got a nice look at the gardens behind the church.\u00a0It was not quite 10am and already throngs of visitors were arriving to see what we had seen.<\/p>\n \u00a0___________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n A visit to St. Peter’s – June 19, 2014 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BOB AT THE BIGLIETTERIA <\/p>\n \n Bob buys tickets for the Metro to Vatican City at the biglietteria (ticket machine)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ST. PETER’S SQUARE <\/p>\n \n By 9am we found ourselves standing in St. Peter’s square which just so happens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSECURITY<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nCOLONNADES<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nST. PETER’S<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n551 STEPS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nTHE DOME<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nTHE CHURCH<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nROME FROM THE CUPOLA<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nIT’S EASIER COMING DOWN<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nGARDEN VIEWS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n[Troutsfarm]<\/a>\u00a0* [June, 2014]<\/a>\u00a0* [Camille’s Birthday Party]<\/a>\u00a0* [TASIS Reunion]<\/a> * [Lugano]<\/a> * [Gastronomy]<\/a>\u00a0* [Hike Up to the Collina d’Oro]<\/a> * [Valle Verzasca]<\/a> * [Monte Bre and Morcote]<\/a> * [Florence]<\/a> * [Art Museums in Florence]<\/a> * [Rome]<\/a> * [The Vatican]<\/a> * [Sicily]<\/a> * [Touring\u00a0Taormina<\/a>] * [A Drive to Mt. Etna]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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