The Pinacoteca had a cool collection of eastern icons, I was digging on it.
After the Pinacoteca, we headed to the sculpture areas. This picture isn't that great, but I am putting it in here because those peacocks around the base of the pinecone thing were taken from Castel Sant'Angelo, and are believed to date from Roman times.
Anyway, lots of this stuff is taken from old cultures. Linda and I liked all this Egyptian stuff.
This sculpture in the octagonal statue garden is the river god of the Arno. If you look in the close up, there's a little lion's face in the river vase, it's a nod to the Medici family.
We took the short-cut from the Sistine Chapel into Saint Peter's!
Most of my interior shots are a little blurry, so I won't torture you with them. But here's a funny shot: the speakers are faux finished to match the marble!
On our way out, we saw the Swiss Guards! They make me laugh a bit. It's thought that Michelangelo designed the uniforms. He wasn't quite a da Vinci, but he did design a lot of stuff.
And that was the end of our Vatican day.
For dinner we walked over to the Gusto restaurant, which had been recommended by Linda's friend Debora from Bolzano. It was great. We shared a really good Caprese-type salad, and I had stir fried Asian veggies and rice noodles. Mmm. I would definitely go there again, or try the other parts of their restaurant collection.
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