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To: SunkenCiv
The way to see the Vatican is to sign on a tour. Costs more, but you get to jump the line (which may be hours long!) We did the same with the Colosseum. Both are worth it. Also, don't miss the Forum.

We really enjoyed the Capitoline Museum. You'd better have a working knowledge of Roman art and/or a good guidebook, because everything is jumbled together and not always well-labeled -- kind of like your grandmother's attic, if your grandmother had a bunch of Roman antiquities!

The Keats-Shelley House at the foot of the Spanish Steps is well worth a visit if you're fond of the English Romantics. It is a rather eccentric British-style small museum with an amazing library, paintings, Keats' death mask, and many other interesting things!

Pompey's Theatre (where Caesar was assassinated) is well below modern street level, in a block where they were supposed to build an office building, but didn't because they found the theatre. It is also a cat sanctuary - we were up on the modern sidewalk and a big ginger tom had us sussed for patsies . . . scaled the wall and spoke to us for awhile. Sadly, we had no treats.

36 posted on 05/29/2024 11:06:34 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

wow, great tip!


43 posted on 05/30/2024 7:28:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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