Master of the domes

I'll be the first to admit that I gently used Photoshop on this picture. However, most all that you see is what is in St. Peter's at the Vatican. Michelangelo was indeed a genius, and I could barely get over seeing the "Pieta" so quickly and simply as I came in. One could wander for some time before coming to the dome, and then again, I wished I had had more time to look around. I also wished that more of the group (especially students) had spent more time in here.

Few notes from Roma

July 17th 2007
This time I am more leisurely putting up photos and sitting at our nearby "internet point" after a walk around the Tiber River. I also borrowed a picture card cable from the guy at the desk...it worked a few nights ago, so while I now have one (thank you Kodak), I already saw that it would not be coming to my aid here. We have been to the Vatican, and I would like to go back just to walk in St. Pe ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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