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Heading into Roccasecca from the A1.
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Getting closer into town….
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The Chiesa di San Tommaso, consecrated in 1323, the year of Thomas’s canonization.
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The church from the front, ugly light post and all.
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Me (Mark Johnson) on the steps in front of the chiesa.
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Looking down upon the Valle del Liri from the church-area.
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Side view of the church, focusing upon the campanile.
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At the top of the hill behind the church, looking down (east) upon the outskirts of Roccasecca.
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The west-facing ruins of the Aquino family castle.
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Looking onto the valley from inside the ruins. Gosh, I wish I had brought my flash.
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More ruins.
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Part of a wall. I love this desolate picture.
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Atop the castle area, looking down upon more ruins.
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An attempt to take an interesting picture through a window. I sure wish I had my flash!
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Looking down upon the valley. My, how green it is…
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A door in the castle wall.
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A detail of the previous picture.
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A nice try at getting the church from behind the portal/gate. Every attempt at getting the wall to come through with Photoshop has failed. Next time, I bring my flash.
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A nice little lunette with a fresco of St. Thomas inside. I got this from many angles.
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Closer to the lunette.
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The best shot; from the side. This is the angle you’ll see elsewhere on the web site.
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Heading out of town (i.e., heading North), and looking back. What a wonderful day.
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Back in Rome, looking around in the atrium at San Clemente’s before I got into the crypt to see Fr Boyle’s tomb.
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Another detail of the atrium. Notice the different columns!
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At the colloseum, I’m getting ready to head over to Santa Sabina.
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The Santa Anna gate at the Vatican, through which you go to get into the BAV (the Vatican Library, or Biblioteca apostolica vaticana).
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Inside Santa Sabina, looking at the north wall. I love this coloration.
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Looking towards the choir and the altar.
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The tomb of Munio of Zamora.
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Another picture of the north wall.
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Looking at the basilica, from the garden to its east.
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This time from the north-east.
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Again, from the north east.
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Some orange trees.
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Some more orange trees.
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Entrance into the Santa Sabina compound, from the west.
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Another picture of the wall and doorway. How long as this wall been there?
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Picture of the outside of the Vatican Library (I was doing some manuscript work there).
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Early-evening picture of the Angelicum.