Off to the Vatican today on a guided tour, we thought that would be the best, no queues and someone to tell us about the various things there. Well I have to say that from here on forward all churches, abbeys and so forth are likely to pale in comparison with the sights we saw today. Saint Peters Cathedral is the largest church in the world and is a quite emphatically, stunning, with a size that defies belief when you understand that one of 4 decorations at the base of the Basilica’s dome measures some 27 feet in diameter, and that is just a decoration. Old Michelangelo had his work cut our for him designing that puppy, he never saw it completed and the whole church took 176 years to build and complete. The Sistine Chapel
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