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Martin & Sarah's Big Adventure
We have just been to visit the Pope in the worlds smallest country (the Vatican City) which has the worlds largest Church (St Peter's Bascillica). In the Vatican City we went to the Vatican Museum, which has some absolutely amazing piece of art and is home to the Sistine Chapel, in which the walls, ceiling and fall are painted my Michaelangelo and includes the Last Testament painting. The room really takes your breath away, and to think that one man painted it all.
The bascillica was also just as breathtaking, the building is absoutely huge and felt very spiritual. The other thing that we saw there which gave us quite a laugh was the swiss guards who guard the Pope. There uniform which was deisgned my Michaelangelo himself looks like a strippy clowns outfit (you can see a picture of them in the photo albumn pages).
Next we went to explore Rome's other features. As we walked through modern Rome and then turned the corner there in front of you was the magnificant Collosseum. The roman forum which was the old centre of rome is covered in ancient ruins, which were amazing and gave you a glipse of what it must have been like to have lived in those times.
In Rome we joined a walking history tour around the city which took you to all the famous places including the Trevi fountain that was in the film La Dolce Vita, and the Pantheon, a church which was built with a hole in the roof, apparantly so that you could be closer to God, but it also gets all the church very wet.
In the evening as we walked back around the Collosseum, all the Bride and Groom's in Rome that got married that day went to have their photo's taken there, it was quite magical, they all looked so happy.
Rome i have to stay was one of my favourite cities, especially the roman forum, which has an air of magic to it, I would definately go to visit here again.
Are next stop is Florence. See ya later
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