Rome, Florence, Lucca and Umbria
  • Waiting for the connecting flight at Charles De Gaulle.
  • CDG Airport Terminal
  • Flying over the Italian Alps
  • Aqueduct in Rome near our B&B
  • Saint Peter’s and the Tiber River
  • St. Peter’s Square (actually an ellipse)
  • Obelisk & Fountain
  • St. Peter’s Square fountain
  • Bernini’s 140 favorite saints
  • St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Capuchin Monk—white on top, brown on the bottom, like cappuccino.
  • Swiss Guard
  • Barbara in the entranceway of St. Peter’s
  • St. Peter’s Dome and the main altar
  • Column of the main altar, 7 story bronze canopy with corkscrew colums showing the Holy Spirit
  • At the base of the altar, a crest of the Barberini family, with the face of a woman in labor.
  • Woman in childbirth closeup
  • Saint Andrew by Bernini
  • Barbara and St. Peter’s statue
  • Michelangelo’s Pietà (done at the age of 24)
  • Top of the dome showing God the Father
  • Papal Crown
  • In the crypt, Saint Osmondo
  • Saint Osmondo
  • Vatican Museum
  • Greek statue and Italian Barbara
  • Urn from Nero’s palace
  • Don’t get too close!
  • Ancona, Barbara Grandmother’s birthplace on a fresco
  • Raphael Fresco
  • Sistine Chapel, The Creation of Adam
  • God creates the Sun and Moon
  • Temptation and Expulsion
  • The Last Judgement
  • Condemned to Hell
  • Sit down you’re rocking the boat!
  • Stairway designed by Michelangelo
  • The Spanish Steps
  • The Fountain of Trevi—All cleaned up!
  • Nick captures the Fountain
  • Breakfast at the B&B
  • Noisy traffic, day and night!
  • Metro tableau
  • Tacky souvenirs
  • Pinocchios everywhere
  • The Pantheon
  • “M Agrippa made this building”
  • Oculus of the Pantheon
  • Statuary niches. Once held Roman Gods, now hold Cathlic Saints
  • Floor below the Oculus