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Rome & Vatican City

Jeremy Koh
2005-11-05 11:48:59

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allowed. Within the church, there're actually guards in there to make sure that no one takes pictures or starts filming. They also ensure that no one sits down on the stairs as well. Well, I still managed to grab a short footage of the church when the guards weren't looking. However, my pictures didn't come out as well because the place is so dark. Anyway, I was slightly disappointed when I first saw the place. Especially since I've heard so much about it. Well, part of the reason is that the lighting in the place is so dim. It was illuminated solely by the light coming from the windows at the top. Also, I can't help comparing it with the grandeur of the Gallery of Maps. However, after sitting down and looking up at the ceiling for some time, I noticed that the painting appears to be popping out. It looks really three-dimensional. And yet when I checked from the side, the ceiling's flat. That's when I realized that all the hype over the church wasn't for nothing. It really is an amazing piece of artwork.

The collection in the museums are very extensive. As such, we took quite some time going through all the rooms even though we rushed through them because we were running out of time. Eventually we made our way to a cafeteria within the museums. There I had my first pizza in Italy. In my famished state, it tasted pretty good.

After resting a while, we decided to make our way out of the museums. Just before exiting the museums, we came across a very interesting double spiral staircase. Unfortunately I realized this only after I came home and read something about this staircase. Apparently, while it looks like one continuous spiral staircase, there're actually two separate staircase. I still can't figure out how it works. Anyway, from the museums, we made our way to the metro station and boarded the train to Colosseo, which is in front of the Coliseum. We were supposed to meet Mel and ...