Bernini’s Elephant and Obelisk, Rome
October 21, 2022
One of the pleasures of wandering around Rome is stumbling across interesting art. So it was as my wife and I rambled from the Forum
One of the pleasures of wandering around Rome is stumbling across interesting art. So it was as my wife and I rambled from the Forum
(Mural of Pope John Paul II, St. Peter’s Square, The Vatican) When visiting the Vatican you leave Italy and enter another country, albeit a very small (110 acre) country with only a few hundred permanent residents. Yet the Vatican…
(Overview of the city, viewed from “Rome from the Sky”) I’d previously discussed the old Roman Ruins, which you can read about here. After the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 A.D., Rome entered a dark age that lasted a thousand years. …
One of the pleasures of wandering around Rome is stumbling across interesting art. So it was as my wife and
(Mural of Pope John Paul II, St. Peter’s Square, The Vatican) When visiting the Vatican you leave Italy and enter another country, albeit a very small (110 acre) country with only a few hundred permanent residents. Yet the Vatican…
(Overview of the city, viewed from “Rome from the Sky”) I’d previously discussed the old Roman Ruins, which you can read about here. After the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 A.D., Rome entered a dark age that lasted a thousand years. …