View from the train station
That's St Peter's ,up top
Ethan, Barbara & Wyatt on the way!
Wyatt, Barbara, Ben & Nick with the
entrance to St Peter's in the center
The wall & the bridge to the Castle St Angelo
Entrance to the Vatican Museums
Here we are, ready to enter!
The entrance
The Main Square!!
Like much of Rome, Bernini was the
Architect/Designer of this square,
designed to hold 300,000 people!
The Front of St Peters
All of this, designed by Bernini!
Another view
And another
This is known as Bernini's colonnade
A closer view
The other side
The Vatican is the building at the top
second window from the right (on top) is the library
in the Popes Apartment
Magnificent!
And again
There doesn't seem to be an empty
space up there for you and me!
The fountain in the square
And closer
That's Ethan, Ben & Wyatt getting a closer view
The Christmas tree in the square
The obelisk is Egyptian and once
was in Nero's circus
The Nativity scene in the square
A closer view
And, again
That's the Vatican & Papal apartment on top
Another view of the square
The bronze "Holy Door", only opened every
25 years.
The Swiss Guards
Another view of the Vatican & Papal apartment
- someone is is in the library!
Ethan, Katy, Matt, Ben & Barbara
at the entrance
Just inside St Peter's
The Pieta, by Michelangelo (shot taken through
protective glass)
Wish this was clearer - picture at top is the ONLY
painting in St. Peters. Everything else are a MOSAIC!
Papal altar and Baldachino designed by Bernini with
St Peters throne in background
View back from the altar
A listing of all of the Popes
that are buried in the Basilica
Grainy shot (because of the lighting) of one of the
side rooms
Another view of the main altar
The dome above the altar
Another view
Main altar again
Statue of Moses carved by
Michelangelo
Wyatt on one of the only three pieces of this color
of marble in the world
Main altar again
St Peter is buried here
A side room in the Basilica
Another look
And another
Start of the trip to the Dome!
And there it is!
Some of the columns holding up the dome
A view from the dome, down into the Basilica through
a wire guard
And again
The Dome!
And again
The dome from the roof
Ben, Ethan & Wyatt, on the roof
Ethan, Wyatt & Ben at the base of a statue
of one of the Apostles
The Apostles
Another view from the roof
The building on the right is the rear of the Vatican
Ethan & Wyatt & a Swiss Guard
Ben, Wyatt, Ethan & a Swiss Guard
This is the saddest picture I have!
A worker has placed a traffic marker on what is
assumed to be the spot that St Peter was crucified.
The entrance to the undercroft
Going into the undercroft
Pope John Paul's grave
St Peter's Sepulture
A view of the tomb
And another
Am ancient altar
Entrance to St Peters at night
Too much motion for a clear picture
And again