Rome

Rome was overwhelming. So much to see and absorb and ponder. Here are a few of our visual impressions after three days exploring the city.

St. Peter's is huge.

Michelangelo's gentle pieta

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Raphael - School of Athens, in Vatican museum

Nice touch of inlaid stone

Double spiral staircase in Vatican

Trevi Fountain

He refused to toss a coin

Pausing for pasta at Campo di Fiori

Original doors from the Roman Senate, now part of St. John Lateran Basilica

Michelangelo's Moses

Lloyd's Romantic pilgrimage - Keats died here.

Felix, the guide, lecturing Italian students about Keats.

Cemetery for non-Catholics who must be buried outside the city walls, as was Keats.

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In the old Ghetto, where we enjoyed fried Jewish artichokes just down the street from the old synagogue which the Pope visited two days later.