Rome Photos: Miscellaneous

In two previous posts (here and here) I have shown some photos of my vacation in Rome from 1997. This will be the third and final installment. The complete album can be viewed here.

	A view of the city of Rome, from the roof of St. Peters. I remember taking this photo very vividly. I was in Rome in August, the hottest, most humid time of the year. The Vatican, being a functioning Catholic Church, among everything else, required all visitors to wear appropriate clothing, i.e. no shorts or T-shirts. So, you have to wait in line, in the heat, in long pants. Once inside you find there are no elevators, so you have to walk all the way up the stairs, something like 500 steps as I recall. And these steps are in a cramped staircase without air conditioning or even a fan to move the air around. Once you're in the dome, the cramped staircase gets more cramped as the walls start to curve over on you, because you are acually climbing up the walls. It was quite a relief to finally get out on the roof.
	A view over the Tiber of the dome of St. Peters, through some trees.
	The Palazzo Venezia. It is just down the road from the Forum, as I recall. From a balcony on the side of this building, Mussolini gave some of his biggest speeches while dictator of Italy.
	Rome is a city of fountains. Nearly every square has one.
	Another fountain in another square in the city.

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