IMG_0433 - Our hotel, and coach, guide, driver, and friends.
IMG_0434 - Piemonte, our hotel street, and the Aurelian city wall.
IMG_0436 - The Vatican Wall, completed in AD 852.
IMG_0438 - The neighbourhood across from the Vatican Wall.
IMG_0440 - The original entrance to the Vatican Museum. Tours by-pass the ticket lineup for the new entrance.
IMG_0441 - Ramp and escalator entrance to the Vatican Museum.
IMG_0442 - View from the Vatican Museum, across the gardens, to the dome of St Peter's Basilica.
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IMG_0446 - This pine cone (Pigna), a pagan fertility symbol, originally a fountain near the Pantheon, was moved here in 1608.
IMG_0447 - Vatican Museum gallery of busts.
IMG_0448 - Rome from a Vatican Museum balcony, high on Vatican Hill.
IMG_0449 - Waiting to enter the Original Bramante Staircase.