Back to the Vatican... and its amazing museum 120

The "Pigna" the courtyard is named for... a famous bronze sculpture in the shape of a pine cone, which according to legend once stood on top of the Pantheon as a lid for the oculus

Back to the Vatican... and its amazing museum

April 4th 2008
After talking with a lot of our fellow travelers during the Rome leg of our trip, we decided we could not leave Rome without visiting the Vatican Museum, that it should allocated a day of its own - as all the booty the Popes have collected over centuries are found in this one world famous museum. Not to mention the Capella Sistina... the Sistine Chapel. Oh yeah, that little piece by Michelangelo.. ... 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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