City of Marbles: Pix from St Peters

Thursday, January 13, 2011

The basilica from the piazza.

This thing is huge.

To the right of this pictures there lies a dead pope. Yes. A dead pope.

This is La Pieta', one of Michelangelo's most famous sculptures.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. - Augustus Caesar

Everyone soon or late comes by Rome. - Robert Browning

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. - Flannery O'Connor

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls, - the World. - Lord Byron

In Rome you long for the country, and in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars. - Horace

Rome! by all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live. - Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday

(thanks to thinkexist.com, IMDB.com)