{"id":5798,"date":"2025-12-10T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:32:16","slug":"st-luke-pilgrimage-to-italy-day-12-november-21st-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=5798","title":{"rendered":"St. Luke Pilgrimage to Italy, Day 12 \u2014 November 21st, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we would return to Rome. We were on a 7-8-9 schedule: awake at 7, breakfast at 8, departure at 9. Our bus took us through the breathtaking landscapes of Tuscany: rolling hills, cypress trees, vineyards, and medieval towns. As we reached Rome, some of our friends left the bus to see a few of \u00a0the city’s most famous sights, including the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps. Having seen them before, we had planned a different destination: the Galleria Borghese.<\/em><\/p>\n

From Google: “The Galleria Borghese is an exquisite art museum in Rome, housed within the lavish 17th-century Villa Borghese, showcasing Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s incredible collection of Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, especially stunning sculptures by Bernini (like Apollo and Daphne) and paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian, all set within a beautiful Baroque building with ornate frescoes and stucco, offering a concentrated, awe-inspiring experience of Italian art history. ” We had made reservations several months in advance.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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First we decided to have a quick lunch, and a pizzeria near our hotel fit the bill. We chose pizza with mozzarella and spinach, and it was the tastiest pizza that we had in Italy. A charming \u00a0young couple next to us began to chat with us. They had just arrived in Rome, and were planning to enter the Holy Doors. We so enjoyed meeting them.\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Our appointed time to enter the Borghese was approaching, so we grabbed a taxi. The museum has two floors, the upper floor mainly for paintings and the lower, mainly for sculpture. \u00a0We \u00a0were allotted two hours with our guide, but he knew so much about every piece of art that we could have spent \u00a0many more than two hours on each floor. \u00a0Rick Steves says that the Borghese is his favorite small museum in Italy, and it is no wonder that he returns as often as he can. It was an amazing experience.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>There were so many paintings that they didn’t have room to display all of them.<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Rain was falling at our departure time. While wailing for a taxi, a teenager in the family next to us was sketching what he had seen. Such talent!<\/div>\n
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Our final dinner together was lasagna, a green salad, and saltimbocca made of pork and veal. For dessert, we enjoyed panna cotta with chocolate sauce. Nick was so tired that he was practically asleep at the dinner table, and we had packing ahead of us \u00a0before tomorrow’s departure.<\/div>\n
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7,352 steps<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we would return to Rome. We were on a 7-8-9 schedule: awake at 7, breakfast at 8, departure at 9. Our bus took us through the breathtaking landscapes of Tuscany: rolling hills, cypress trees, vineyards, and medieval towns. As we reached Rome, some of our friends left the bus to see a few of … Continue reading St. Luke Pilgrimage to Italy, Day 12 \u2014 November 21st, 2025<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilgrimage-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}