Malta
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| Rome Ferrara Milan Basel |
Rome
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| Colloseum |
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| Colloseum |
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| Colloseum |
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| Colloseum |
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| Trajan's Column |
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| Trajan's Column |
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| Trajan's Column |
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| Trajan's Column |
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| Elephant obelisk 17th c elephant supporting ancient Egyptian obelisk |
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| Castel Sant'Angelo |
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| St Peter's, across the Tiber |
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| St Peter's |
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| St Peter's Square |
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| Poles from Scotland In town for Joh Paul II canonization |
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| Temple of Hercules Victor |
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| Temple of Hercules Victor |
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| Victor Emmanuel Monument |
The Pantheon
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| The Pantheon: "Agrippa Built This" |
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| Tourist hordes |
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| Occulus |
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| Vittorio Emanuele tomb |
Roman Fora
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| Arch of Constantine |
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| Arch of Titus |
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| Roman Fora |
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| Roman Fora |
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| The Black Stone |
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| Exterior of the Curia |
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| Temple of Caesar |
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| Altar of Caesar |
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| Temple of the Vestals |
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| Temple of Antoninus and Faustina |
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| "Temple of Romulus" |
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| Temple of Saturn |
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| Temple of Saturn |
Capitoline Museum
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| Replica of Marcus Aurelius statue Outside Capitoline Museum |
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| She Wolf of Rome |
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| Boy with Thorn (~27 BC) |
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| Marcus Aurelius statue (~180 AD) |
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| Giant head of Constantine (~337 AD) |
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| Very fine micro-mosaic (2nd-3rd c) |
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| Sarcophogus with the Calydonia Boar Hunt |
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| Oceanus |
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| The Dying Gaul Renaissance update of Roman replica of a lost Greek original |
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| The Dying Gaul Hairstyle is not original. |
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| Bachus (?) in purple marble |
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| Asclepius with a twined serpent staff, in fine black marble |
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| Black centaur |
Ferrara
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| Diamanti Palace |
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| Diamanti Palace: Diamond patterned surface |
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| Castello Estense |
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| Castello Estense |
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| Castello Estense |
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| Castello Estense |
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| Castello Estense |
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| Castello Estense |
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| Ferrara Cathedral |
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| Odd cathedral doorway support |
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| Cathedral bell tower |
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| Palazzo Municipale |
Milan
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| Rainy Milan Cathedral |
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| Milan Cathedral (2) |
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| Cathedral interior |
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| Cathedral interior |
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| Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II |
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| Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II A Very Grand arcade |
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| La Scalla Exterior |
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| La Scalla interior |
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| Castello Sforzesco |
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| Castello Sforzesco |
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| Castello Sforzesco |
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| Mila-Basel: Distant Alps |
Basel
After Italy, I made a brief overnight stop in Basel, Switzerland, on my way to Frankfurt airport.
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| Tinguely Fountain |
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| Tinguely Fountain |
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| Minster (Cathedral) |
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| The mighty Rhine |
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| Wire ferry across the rhine |
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| Cathedral from across the Rhine |
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| Rathaus. 1504 core, much extended, reworked. |
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| Rathaus |
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| Spalentor Gate |
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Malta
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