I’m lazy with the words, so hopefully the photos can do this historic city at least a little justice.
Click any of the pics in this post to be taken to my flickr where you can access larger versions or view them on a map (most of ‘em are geotagged).
Beautiful city and I kick it off with a littered street? And follow on with a washed out boring photo of one of the holiest Christian sites?
But then you command “Let there be light!”, and things look a little better:
Maderno’s façade of St. Peter’s Basilica with a few people who turned up to listen to the Pope have a chat.
Dragged along (slowly) by the crowds toward the Sistine Chapel:
The scenery along the way:
Access to the Sistine Chapel involved negotiating a rather tortuous path of corridors and detours. I lost count of how many times these signs seemed to suggest the main attraction was around the next corner…
Got there eventually of course, but cameras were forbidden and I didn’t want to get struck down, so no sneaky photos from me 