tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12634617363196059992024-02-19T00:35:44.628-08:00Laurie of ArabiaTeaching geography, history and political science through travel.Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-29640102236158419482014-06-25T21:55:00.002-07:002014-06-25T21:55:25.879-07:00Adventures 2014 - June: In the Land of the Dinosaurs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Utah is dinosaur country. When a photography assignment sent me in two directions to gather photographs, I learned just how much my state has in the dinosaur department - which is A LOT!!!</div>
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Georges Cuvier, 1789-1832, was a Frenchman who worked at the French National Museum in Paris. He studied mastodons and mammoths. He correctly concluded that these ancient animals are not related to modern day elephants. He was able to explain what extinction was and that many animal species were extinct do to biological phenomena.</div>
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William Buckland, 1784-1856, was a British scientist who began the study of dinosaurs that continues to this day. He was the first to correctly identify teeth and limb bones of what he thought was a very large reptile. He called it <span style="color: #cc0000;">Megalosaurus.</span> He did not consider it a dinosaur. </div>
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Sir Richard Owen, 1804-1892, was the British scientist who coined the term <em><span style="color: #cc0000;">dinosaur</span></em> (terrible lizard). It was Owen who stated that dinosaurs were an extinct species of lizard, not related to modern lizards and reptiles. He and Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins were the first to put on a public display of what Owen thought were realistic and life-size models of what few dinosaurs had been identified at the time.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Price, Utah is a small town of less than 10,000 people located eastern Utah. The small College of Eastern Utah is located here, and the college runs the Prehistoric Museum, a small, but nice museum dedicated to ancient life. I stopped at the museum to have a quick tour. Here are a few scenes of the museum.</span></div>
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This last picture was identified as a stegosaurus footprint, of which only six have been found, five at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. This isn't actually a footprint, but a cast made in a footprint. Cast and mold fossils are two separate types of fossils, but to have a cast, one has to have a mold. When I went to Cleveland-Lloyd, I asked about these fossils, and the paleontologist there, who shall remain anonymous, snorted and asked me if I had heard of Dr. ______. Yes, I had heard of this famous Utah paleontologist. Well, stated my host, this Dr. knew a lot about dinosaurs, so much so that he often stated facts that he could not accurately prove. Dr. _________ identified this cast as a stegosaurus footprint. However, it could have been made by a number of herbivore dinosaurs, not necessarily a stegosaurus. Hmmm....... I would learn that paleontology was not an exact science and that there is more disagreement among paleontologists than agreement.</div>
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About 30 miles south of Price is the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. This is the world's densest concentration of dinosaur bones, mostly allosaurus, Utah's State Dinosaur. Between 12,000 - 15,000 bones have been excavated. The bones are from the Jurassic Period. Most of the original bones have remained in Utah at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City), Brigham Young University (Provo) and the museum in Price. Cast models of complete dinosaur models have been made and are on display in over 65 museums around the world.</div>
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Cleveland-Lloyd is in the middle of nowhere. I traveled two different routes to get there. Both are over gravel roads. The easiest route is to take Carbon Ave. from Price south to state highway 10 towards the small towns of Elmo and Cleveland. Most of the route is on paved roads, and there are signs to get to the quarry. I tracked about 11 miles on gravel roads with this route, otherwise it is much more gravel on the other route. Surprisingly, cell phones and GPS work in this area.</div>
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Cleveland-Lloyd is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The site has hiking trails, a picnic area, and pit toilets. There is no running water. The Butler House covers the area of the current excavation site. The current site permit holder is Dr. Joseph Peterson of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. I was able to meet with him briefly on my way back home. Here are some scenes from the quarry.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"> My next stop would be Moab, Utah. This time I would spend my mornings with two paleontologists, one from Utah, and one from California. They shall remain anonymous! They will be reading this!</span></div>
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My first morning in Moab, I was whisked away into a canyon, and up a series of switchbacks, and then into scrub until we reached slickrock riddled with dinosaur prints. My two new friends were teasing me on the way up that I should have a black bag put over my head so that I could never find my way to this area. This is why I won't tell the names of these two! The site was pretty awesome! Very few locals know about the area, and we traveled over an hour to get there. It is the goal to keep the area, and others like it, secret so that tracks are not vandalized - which has happened recently. While I have excellent directional skills, I could not find this place on my own.</div>
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The next morning I was taken to an area open to the public where bones are still intact in the rock. At one area it was obvious that the bone had been taken from the area.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Three hours east of Salt Lake City is the town of Vernal. A town of less than 10,000 people, it is the gateway to many recreational areas in eastern Utah, and has a variety of everything I need for travel survival - except a Taco Time. Who wouldn't love a town with a giant pink dinosaur?</span></div>
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Dinosaur National Monument straddles Utah and Colorado. The main quarry is in Utah, although there are other quarries still being excavated that are closed off the public. The area was proclaimed a monument in 1915. The area has had people living in the area for at least 10,000 years. There are wonderful Fremont Indian petroglyphs. There are also homesteads throughout the park.</div>
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Josie Bassett Morris bought land in the area in 1913 and was allowed to live in the monument until she broke her hip in 1963. She died in 1964. Her cabin and chicken coop are still intact. She lived without electricity or running water. She was married five times and divorced four!</div>
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Here are dinosaur bones. A few are coated so that they can be touched.</div>
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Josie Bassett Morris was born in Arkansas to wealthy parents. When she was about three years old, her parents decided to move west for a more adventurous life. They filed a homestead claim in eastern Utah. Josie would spend her entire life in a homestead situation.<br />
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The Fremont People inhabited Eastern Utah for hundreds of years. They left behind petroglyphs throughout eastern Utah.<br />
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Vernal has dinosaurs all over town. They have a small museum, The Field House, which houses an excellent collection of dinosaur bones and petroglyphs.<br />
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As I was leaving the area, I thought I saw a dinosaur sculpted out of metal in a field. It was just the irrigation pipes!</div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Before I went to Vernal, I took two of my nephews to the Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi, Utah. This museum is one of the largest museums in the world built around dinosaurs. There are 60 mounted dinosaur exhibits and over 50 hands on activities.</span></div>
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I took the pictures with my GoPro, and I clearly need more practice with it. The general idea does come across.</div>
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And finally, I went to Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden, Utah. This park has awesome life-size dinosaurs in an open park, with a small, but incredible museum. There are 52 life-size sculptures and ten dinosaur skeletons.</div>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-18471330282389973852014-05-18T15:05:00.003-07:002014-05-18T15:05:26.035-07:00Adventures 2014 - May: Glassblowing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made this! I finally got to try my hand at working with molten glass. With the help of the glassblowers at Holdman Studios in Lehi, Utah, I was able to obtain a long standing dream of mine, glassblowing.<br />
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Holdman Studios is part of the Thanksgiving Point complex. The unassuming building is north of the Museum of Ancient Life, and the Barn complex.<br />
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While inside, I was given a tour by a lovely young man named Logan. Holdman Studios does work for both public and private clients.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This will be turned into a sculpture piece. I saw the original drawing by the couple who designed it for their yard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought these window panels were pretty in their simplicity.</td></tr>
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The public are allowed to watch artisans working with glass.<br />
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Logan showed me the room where glass painting is done. The painted glass portrait is of the Apostle Bartholomew. If I understand this process correctly, and I am not sure I do, tiny grains of glass are mixed with powdered minerals and painted on and then baked to melt the glass and seal the painting.<br />
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The studio is a wonderful place to visit as there are a variety of glass objects to buy.<br />
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And now, my favorite part - me working with molten glass! First gobs of molten glass are taken out of the furnace. The glass blower must temper or work with the glass to get it the right consistency.<br />
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The hot glass is then rolled in bits of colored glass of my choosing.<br />
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It is then tempered again and set in a certain shape. This is all done by the artisan glass blower.<br />
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Now, I get involved. Using tongs, I get to pull at the glass to the shape I desire.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I will be returning to Holdman Studios in June with a group of teenage girls from my church so that they can have this experience. I will make two more flowers as I have a display in mind for my own home. This post will be edited, so stay tuned!</span></div>
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In 2011, I visited the Keukenhof Gardens near Lisse, Netherlands. It was an amazing experience, and I did write about it here in the post <span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>For the Love of a Tulip.</em></span><span style="color: black;"> As returning to these amazing gardens is not an option at this time, I chose a tulip festival close to home.</span> This month's adventure, the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> Lehi, Utah is located about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. In 1996, Alan and Karen Ashton bought some vacant land and started building their non-profit Thanksgiving Point. Alan Ashton is the co-founder of Wordperfect. The Point more than doubled Lehi's population as the Point's popularity caught on. Soon other businesses and new housing developments surrounded Thanksgiving Point. One of the neighborhoods is called Pilgrims' Landing. For more information see <a href="http://www.thanksgivingpoint.org/">www.thanksgivingpoint.org</a></span><br />
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The Thanksgiving Tulip Festival is on about 50 acres of gardens with about 250,000 flowers, or at least tulips. I was not thinking I would be impressed as Keukenhof is not much bigger and has <em><span style="color: #990000;">5-6 million</span> </em>bulb flowers. However, the gardeners at the Point have done an amazing job. At Utah's spring season is very iffy - warm one day, snow the next - is it wise to check the Thanksgiving Point website and the local weather for festival times and temperatures.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"> I took more than 200 pictures, and will include a few here. I loved playing with my filters, so there are duplicate pictures with different settings. It makes for a very different view. Bees and other insects see with infrared light, so they see different colors we cannot. I like to think that I am thinking like a bee when I use filters. Enjoy the photos. </span><br />
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-55147412147692541422014-03-16T16:13:00.003-07:002014-04-27T15:42:38.399-07:00Adventures 2014 - March: Hiking The Bonneville Trail I have asthma, and it sucks! This past winter was a tough one. Today was the perfect day for an easy hike to help get back my full lung power. I opted for a portion of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail above the Foothills section of Salt Lake City. I had never hiked this stretch before, so it was my March adventure.<br />
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Lake Bonneville was a large lake that covered most of what is now Utah, and parts of Idaho and Nevada during the Pleistocene Era. The lake was name for Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville, a 19th century fur trapper, by geologist G.K. Gilbert. Several levels of the old shoreline are visible in the foothills and mountains to the north and east of Salt Lake City. <br />
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The small portion of the trail I hiked was well groomed, and fairly busy with families and individuals.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downtown SLC, the Capitol Building, and the salt marshes, and Great Salt Lake in the background. The mountain is actually part of Antelope Island, a state park in the Great Salt Lake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corrigan Canyon is the southern entrance to the trail, and a home to a small enclave of expensive homes.</td></tr>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-41781572553429887072014-02-24T20:09:00.000-08:002014-02-24T20:09:27.295-08:00Adventures 2014 - February: Desert Glass I love glass. Knit glass found at Disneyland. Blown glass from around the world. Murano fused glass, Maltese glass, Turkish Cheshembulbul, (I spelled that out phonetically), Egyptian blown glass painted with 24 Karat gold, Egyptian Muski Glass, and most of all anything by artist Dale Chihuly. Forget Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake. <strong><em><span style="color: blue;">Chihuly is my rock god!</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Currently, Chihuly has an exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, through the middle of May 2014. The pictures were taken with both an ipad and a camera. No words are needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> If you go, you will need to reserve a time to be in the garden. Fiori is Italian for flowers.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Blue Sun Fiori</span></strong> (camera)<br />
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-39488111842582651172014-02-23T21:53:00.001-08:002014-02-23T21:53:31.138-08:00Adventures 2014 - February: The Kartchner Caverns My brother <em><span style="color: #bf9000;">loves</span></em> caves. As a scout master he would find the dimensions of crawl spaces into caves, and find something at home that fit the dimensions. I have a distinct memory of him asking me to crawl though the legs of a dining room chair. I did, mostly to show I could. But, I would never go spelunking with him. I love the man. I just don't trust him!<br />
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That does not mean caves do not interest me. Some day I will go to Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico. This cave is a national park, and also home to Lechuguilla Caverns, which are only open to scientists. I would LOVE to visit the Cave of Crystals near Naica, Mexico, with the giant crystal formations. Unfortunately, this is also only open to scientists as the caverns are very hot (130 + degrees, and 99% humidity.)</div>
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After visiting San Xavier del Bac, my sister and I headed about 40 miles southeast of Tucson, to the small town of Benson, where the Kartchner Caverns State Park is located. Since photography is not allowed, I am using photographs taken by<span style="color: #7f6000;"> K.L Day, David Elms and Noelle Wilson</span> found in the book <em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Kartchner Cavern State Park</span></em> by Sam Negri</div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> There are always going to be boys, like my brother, who just need to explore caves. Discovering a new one, that no human had ever seen.....the ultimate caver's goal. Randy Tufts, a Tucson native, and avid spelunker/caver would often wonder the Whetstone Mountains south of Tucson for caves. The area is filled with limestone, and sinkholes, a sure sign that a cave is somewhere in the vicinity. In 1966, with the help of local minors, and his uncle and friends, they went to explore a certain area. There was a sinkhole, and a crack in the earth, but conditions were not right, and the boulders near the crack were unstable. So, Tufts marked the area on a map. It would be seven years before he would return.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> Seven years later, Tufts had met and befriended another university student, Gary Tenen. Tenen wasn't a caver, but he was studying science (entomology - Tufts, of course, geology). In 1974, they, and another friend, went back to the sinkhole. This time they found another horizontal hole. Tufts wondered if the two holes could be connected. The next weekend, they returned to find out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> This time things were different. That original crack looked the same, but something was different. This time Tufts felt warm, moist air, that smelled of bat guano. These were sure signs of a living cave. With some digging, and pounding at just enough limestone to get through, the two followed the air through passages until they were able to stand upright. They found themselves in a corridor that led to a chamber where, bouncing off the light of their headlamps, they found stalactitites, soda straws, and helictites. They walked carefully, trying not to touch anything. The big discovery had been made. Now they had a big problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> It would not take long before others would also find the cave. Grafitti, trash, and souvenir hunters breaking of stalactites would follow. They wanted to keep this cave pristine, but how? They took a year to explore and map the cave with a few other cavers, being extremely careful about leaving footprints, and breaking formations. They would try to figure out how to buy the land and develop the caves, but money was an issue, as was the land rights.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> The caverns were on land owned by rancher and science teacher, James Kartchner and his family. For years he has speculated that there were caves on his land just be the sound that came from the limestone and he rode over it with his horse. Tufts and Tenen were leary of Kartchner, and were worried about secrecy of their discovery. They didn't need to worry. James Kartchner was fascinated with geology. James would first see the caverns at the age of 78, when he and five of his sons went with Tufts and Tenen to see the caverns. Max Kartchner would say of this experience, " We were in complete disbelief at the size and beauty of it. It was almost a sacred experience, so exquisite and out of this world." (Negri, p 15)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> Using only cash from a joint account set up with the Kartchners, Tufts and Tenen went about learning how one could open a cave to the public. The caving community is tight-knit, so anyone invited to come to the cave had to sign a secrecy document. Even then, leaks happened. The caverns came close to being discovered by others. Tufts and Tenen started using aliases.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> By 1984 the idea of making the caves into a state park was in play. Governor Bruce Babbitt toured the caverns in 1985 with his two young sons. He warned them to be very careful, and then he ended up knocking over a small stalagmite. His children have never let him forget it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"> Three years, two more governors, two more state parks directors and behind-the-scene political maneuvering, that would make a great suspense movie, were to happen before the state bought the land. Even the wording of the bill of sale was in such obscure legalese that most would have no idea that land was being bought for a state park. No mention of the cave was in senate bill 1188. Until the final vote, only six legislators actually knew what was being bought and why. Finally, on April 27, 1988, Kartchner Caverns State Park became a reality. It only took 14 years of secrecy and clandestine movements to protect the pristine caverns.</span></span></div>
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To visit the caverns, one has to make reservations. This can be done online by going to <a href="http://www.azstateparks.com/">www.azstateparks.com</a> It is highly advisable to get advanced reservations. Just showing up will not guarantee admission. You pick a tour time, and they will leave without you.</div>
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There are two tours, the Rotunda/Throne Room and the Big Room. The Big Room is closed part of the year because, as our guide told us, "We have a timeshare with the bats for that cave." When both tours are open, you can go on back to back tours.</div>
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The caverns are protected by a series of airlocks. For those old enough to remember, it is like going through the doors of the 60's sitcom <em>Get Smart.</em> The guides carry ribbons with them to mark areas that may need to be cleaned later - and each night a crew goes through the caverns looking for things that should not be there.</div>
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Over 30 years ago, my aunt and uncle took my mother and I to the San Xavier del Bac Mission Church southeast of Tuscson. A few years ago, I returned with my sister. However, we could not enter the chapel as it was the Saturday before Lent, and many, many services were going on that could not be accomplished after Ash Wednesday.<br />
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It was always my goal to go back and photograph the frescoes of the interior. We know only the name of one of the artisans who worked on this church, Pedro Bojorquez, a Spanish soldier believed to be working as a carpenter. His name is carved into a wooden door. The church was being built as Mozart played to the crowned heads of Europe, and George Washington was fighting for and then presiding over a new country.<br />
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My goal is to not give a history, fascinating as that history is, but to share in the visual: the incredible frescoes left behind.<br />
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<li>San Xavier is a working church, and there are always faithful there. Please be respectful.</li>
<li>Catholic or not: time a visit well before Ash Wednesday, and after Easter. The Saturday before Lent starts is a very busy time for the actual parish members. Holy Week before Easter is also very busy.</li>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-54497128119412373282014-01-19T18:19:00.002-08:002014-02-23T15:55:44.139-08:00Adventures 2014 - January: Midway Ice Castles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A January adventure: where to go? I had to keep it close to home. Utah has so many things happening in January. I could watch Olympic tryouts at one of the Olympic venues that are still operational 12 years after the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics. Utah scored big with those games, and athletes come from around the world to train here. There was always Sundance, the premier U.S. film festival held in Park City. Maybe I could catch a few films, or just sit around and watch celebrities. Nah, the films would be good, but I am not interested in celebrities. The Ice Castles in Midway! Yes, that would be a good choice. So, I asked my buddy, Stacie, to come with me. Between the two of us, we had three cameras, and took nearly 900 shots. No, I won't show them all here. But, you can google ice castle image if you don't see enough here!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">About 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City is the Heber Valley where the small town of Midway is nestled into the backside of the Wasatch range. Mormon pioneers settled the valley about 1858 in two small hamlets: Mound City and Smiths Grove. When problems with the local Native Americans came about, territorial governor Brigham Young instructed the two communities to build a fort "midway" between them. Midway Fort soon became to a new group of pioneers from Switzerland. This was a fairly large group to move into the area, and German was the first language. </span></div>
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Today many Midway families can trace their ancestors to the Swiss pioneers. Swiss Days, and Swiss Christmas are two festivals that keep the Old Country feel to the town. While the 2010 Census had the population of Midway at just under 4,000 people, the area has become a bedroom community to the Provo-Orem area 20 miles to the west, and to Park City, 10 miles north. There are also many vacation homes in the area.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Brent Christensen now lives in Hawaii. But for a few years he and his family lived in Midway. He would try to build elaborate slides and ice towers for his children in his backyard using wooden structures that he would spray with water. It worked out....sort of. When the spring thaw came, Mr. Christensen would be left with a mess of splintered wood all over the yard. Always working on the problem, he then did away with the wood structures and started to build on ice blocks, to which he would add chunks of ice and snow.</span></div>
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In an interview with the Associated Press, Christensen stated "During that process, I almost accidentally started thinking about icicles. At first it was just for cosmetics. I thought, 'This will look really cool.' And then, with time, I stumbled on the idea of crisscrossing the icicles, and that when I found...you can actually grow them in certain ways." (Holly Ramer, reporter - listed on ABC News online)</div>
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Christensen would eventually patent his ideas. In 2014, Ice Castles can be found in Midway, Utah, Lincoln, New Hampshire, and Breckinridge, Colorado (check out the Youtube video of violinist Lindsay Stirling filmed in the Breckinridge Ice Castle. The piece she is playing is called <em><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Crystallize</span></em>.)</div>
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Mr. Christensen can't be everywhere, and now he has seasonal employees to build the ice castles. Starting in cold autumn weather, water is sprayed onto metal racks to start the process of growing icicles. When the icicles get to a certain length and width, they are "harvested" and "planted" in the ground around sprinkler heads where they continue to be watered. </div>
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With the right amount of water and care, the icicles grow. PAC pipe is then added to the sprinkler heads to deliver water to the ever growing ice sculptures.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"> While the Ice Castles are a great family outing, please note that the lines are long, the ground icy, and not the best place for babies, toddlers and strollers.</span></div>
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Should you go in the afternoon, exit about 4:30 and get a stamp on your hand. You can then go have something to eat and return in the evening. You won't have to wait in line.</div>
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Park in the post office parking lot, if you can. You are within walking distance of the Ice Castle, a few restaurants and a grocery story. The post office is across the street from the town hall.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>Don't bring a stroller!</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> The ground in the castle will get pounded down with so many visitors. This can get quite slick, so the ground crew will break it up. People can sink in this. I call it </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><em>quick </em><span style="color: black;">snow</span> - </span><span style="color: black;">think quick sand. Strollers will not get through it. Babies and toddlers won't appreciate the ice castles anyway.</span></div>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-5801432542470515652014-01-19T14:29:00.002-08:002014-01-19T14:29:49.373-08:002014 - My Year of Adventures New Years Resolutions - yuck! Then I resolved to have an adventure each month. The adventure had to be something I had never done, a place I had never been to. Or, I could revisit something from my childhood, with at least a 30-year interval between then and now.<br />
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I hope you enjoy my adventures.Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-32160199243283110222013-10-27T18:06:00.002-07:002013-10-27T18:06:57.454-07:00Hiking Utah There is no doubt that Utah's national parks hold spectacular beauty. But with that beauty come danger.<br />
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This is a desert, and has little water, and lots of vicious critters. Items that one should have when hiking in Utah:<br />
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-54075086040911103712013-10-27T17:51:00.001-07:002013-10-27T17:51:54.806-07:00I love Rocks! I will visit any rock shop, and I wasn't disappointed in Moab. Now, rocks don't rock the world of many people, but for those of us that love the things, these are treasure. This shop carries dinosaur bone and Anasazi pottery. If this is found on federal lands, it cannot be sold, but if found on private land, while doing one's planting - that can be sold. I was given a free dinosaur bone, an nice specimen as I am a teacher, and can prove it. I also got a piece of pottery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My newest acquisition -Bixbyite, a rare mineral. Not to be confused with Bixbite, an extremely rare form of red beryl. Knows as red emerald, Bixbite can only be found in the Wah Wah mountains of Utah. I have only seen pictures of it. </td></tr>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-49622218527603929712013-10-27T17:30:00.000-07:002013-10-27T17:30:18.553-07:00Hiking Arches National Park When I was a teenager, I went hiking for about an hour in Arches National Park with my older brother. We did not see any arches. I was disappointed. But, with a camper full of his kids waiting for us, going on one of the cool hikes wasn't an option.<br />
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Delicate Arch is the most photographed and famous arch in the world, and I was determined to see it on my own. This was my main reason for my trip to the Moab area. Arches is home to more than 2,000 arches, most of which are off limits to the public. But what we can see are pretty spectacular. The park is also filled with fins, pinnacles, spires, towers, balanced rocks, and petrified sand dunes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two views of <span style="color: blue;">the Windows</span>. You must be a bit far from them to get this view as the rock is curved and they can't be seen together up close.</td></tr>
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The next set of arches are <span style="color: blue;"><em>Turret Arches</em></span>, which are near the Windows.<br />
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Across the parking lot, and down a small arroyo are the <span style="color: blue;"><em>Double Arches.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span><span style="color: black;"> John Wesley Wolfe left his home in Ohio, and settled in a remote homestead near Delicate Arch with his eldest son, Fred. A Civil War wound prompted John Wolfe to move to a drier climate, and he found just that.</span><br />
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His second cabin is still standing, along with the corral he built for his few cattle. He lived on the ranch for about a decade, returning to his home state of Ohio. He lived well into his 80s. He died in Etna, Ohio in 1909.<br />
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It is from Wolfe's Ranch, that the hike to Delicate Arch starts, about three miles round trip. Much of the hike is on slickrock, so appropriate footwear is important.</div>
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A good part of the hike is on slickrock, and this is where accidents can happen, as the rock is slick, and it is steep. Coming down is much more difficult than the ascent. When people feel sore the next day, it is from using muscles to brace themselves as they descend the slickrock.</div>
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The final destination - <span style="color: blue;"><em>Delicate Arch</em></span></div>
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Like a good Mormon woman, I attend the temple. My goal is to get to all the temples in Utah. Trying for every temple in the world is out of reach. As this blog is open to the public, I know there are those of you who have seen the musical <span style="color: #45818e;"><em>The Book of Mormon</em></span><span style="color: black;">. You may be wondering after seeing this musical how I can believe in my religion. The writers of the musical like Mormons, they just think our beliefs are silly - silly is their word. Then again, these guys make fun of everyone! So, my question is who are they laughing more at - me and my beliefs, or the people who take their musical seriously? HMMMM!? (Oh, and by the way, I am Ivy League educated, speak several languages, and as you can see from this blog, I get around.)</span><br />
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The Monticello Temple is one of the smaller LDS temples, and serves a population of ranchers, and others who just cannot get to the larger cities to visit a temple. This area of Utah is sparsely populated. One wonders if anyone would even go to the temple.<br />
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My session was full, to the point of adding extra chairs to accommodate people. <span style="color: #45818e;"><em>If you build it they will come.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"> Monticello now has two new hotels to accommodate those who cannot travel to the temple and back in one day.<br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #45818e;">The Trip Back to Moab</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> In my Sunday best, what we wear to the temple, and my hiking shoes, I did some hiking and photography on the way back to Moab. Here is what I found:<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: small;"><em><strong> </strong></em><span style="color: black;"> Between Moab and Monticello is </span><span style="color: #45818e;"><em>Hole N" The Rock</em></span><span style="color: black;"> not to be confused with </span><span style="color: #38761d;"><em>Hole In The Rock</em></span><span style="color: black;">, another feature found in the area and used by the Mormon Pioneers. </span><span style="color: #45818e;"><em>Hole N" The Rock</em></span><span style="color: black;"> was the brain child of the Christensen brothers, Lee and Albert. Their father, or grandfather, I get confused here, had homesteaded the area.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The area around the home is home to much cheesiness, and makes for a great pit stop. One can tour the home, which I did. I was not allowed to take pictures. The following pictures I got from Google Images. Hole N" The Rock has its own website.</span><br />
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</span></span><br />Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-7843105931688370352013-10-27T15:34:00.000-07:002013-10-27T15:34:02.362-07:00It Rains Snakes In These Parts! My vacation would start on a Thursday. I would drive the 300 + miles to Moab, settle in for the night and get to my agenda on Friday.<br />
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I got into the Moab area around 12:30pm, which was much earlier than I had expected. I thought I would try a small hike at Dead Horse Point State Park, and turned on the road to go there.<br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">When Reptiles Rain from the Sky</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> Moab was going to be full of visitors/ tourists this weekend, so I was surprised when I found myself alone on a road, driving past ruby red sandstone cliffs.....and then </span><span style="color: red;">THUMP!!!!!!</span><span style="color: black;"> Something hit the hood of my car. I screamed, lost control of the car, quickly got my hands back on the steering wheel and managed to get to the side of the road where I stopped the car. I was looking down at my controls, thinking that a rock had fallen from the cliff, and ricocheted off the valley floor on to the hood of my car. I had the presence of mind to hit the button that puts on my emergency blinkers. Then I looked up to see what had hit the car.</span><br />
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More screaming!!! Staring through my window was a rattlesnake, about two feet long. It was bleeding on my hood and windshield. It was writhing and had its fangs bared. The rattle was sounding like angry castanets. I thought I was going to die of a heart attack right then and there. But, the Lord knows it is not my time to leave this earthly existence. Had I not been scared spitless, and had more presence of mind, I would have pulled out a camera. I had a camera, smartphone, and iPad on my passenger seat. I can take pictures with all three of them, and this was a great horror picture - but I didn't think of this until the following Tuesday. <br />
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I have no idea how much time passed. I was help captive in the safety of my car while the snake continued to bare fangs and shake its rattle. To be honest, I am not sure it was alive, if the writhing was not after death involuntary muscle movement. It didn't occur to me to use my phone to call for help.<br />
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Eventually, a van pulled up behind my car, and two men got out. One man, Mike, Nick, or maybe his name was Alan - can't recall - came over to my window. He saw the snake, and yelled back to his friend to get back in the car, it was a rattlesnake. "NickAllan" or whoever he was, went back to his van and got a fishing net, the kind with the handle that can be extended. Telling me to "sit tight" (no problem!), he stood about six feet from my car and netted the snake, which curled up into a coil in the net. He then did this fascinating move, like a Jai Alai player, and flung the net overhand so that the snake went flying into the air, and landed way out on the desert floor.<br />
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Then both men got me out of the car to walk out my shakes. They examined the car, and amazingly there was no denting in the hood. I opted not to hike that afternoon, and they followed me back into Moab, and saw me safely to my motel, where I checked in pale as a ghost. I went to my room and stretched out on the bed in an effort to get my heart rate and blood pressure down.<br />
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A few hours later, determined to get back to my vacation, I went to the front desk to get some directions. One of the clerks had heard about my adventure when I was checking in - I was asked if I felt okay, and had given a brief account. She told me that young fledgling raptors (birds of prey) often misjudge the weight of animals they attack, and have to drop them. Her father was a ranger at Canyonlands National Park, and their home was on the Moab outskirts. They often found dead, or nearly dead animals in their yard. Some young eagle, falcon, or raven had lost its lunch! I recalled that "NickAllan" and his friend had said something similar, but at the time it did not register with me.<br />
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My hotel was next to a carwash, where I went to clean the blood off the front of the car. I then found the restaurant I was looking for, and made myself eat. I also found a rock shop, which would bring back my excitement about my vacation.<br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Dead Horse Point State Park</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> The following Sunday, determined to see this park, I did as the Mormon hymn "Come, Come Ye Saints" states</span><span style="color: #b45f06;"> <em>Gird up your loins, fresh courage take, our God will never us forsake.</em></span><span style="color: black;"> Back to the park I went, hoping not to have another snake rain on my parade. Here is the park:</span><br />
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On the way home to SLC, I noticed a small crack in my windshield. I took the car in on Monday to have it check out and filled. The man fixing it said something like "Darndest rock chip I have ever seen! It looks like something tried to bite your window!"Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-49984441108319017262013-10-27T13:30:00.002-07:002013-10-27T13:30:53.768-07:00A Trip from Reality Every October, Utah schools are out for a four-day weekend. It is UEA weekend, when the teachers are supposed to go to the Utah Education Association convention. Many families head down to Disneyland. Disneyland even has this factored in when vast amounts of Utahns show up.<br />
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I don't want to spend my time in a convention. I have been teaching for nearly 30 years, and I want this weekend to myself. My goal was to go down to the Moab area in the southeast section of Utah.<br />
Moab is situated between two national parks, various state parks, and other recreational sites. I wanted to go hiking at Arches National Park.<br />
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Moab is a town of about 5,000 or so people. It was settled in the 1850s by Mormon Pioneers. There is a dispute as to whether name refers to the Moab in the Old Testament (which is located in modern day Jordan), or to the Native American word, <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Moapa</em> </span><span style="color: black;">which means "mosquito".</span></div>
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After the uranium boom of the 1950s, the town settled down to become a vacation mecca for those who like to hike, jeep, bike, and ride white water rapids. The place is a draw for tourists from around the world. There are numerous, hotels, B&Bs, campsites, etc. The town is also located is some of Utah's harshest wilderness. One needs to be a hardy person to live in this area.</div>
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Southern Utah is very dependent on tourist dollars as its main source of income. We have people from all over the world coming here. Angry tourists were diverted to state parks as much as possible, but there was a lot of anger from tourists and residents alike over the national park shutdown. Utah's own Sen. Mike Lee suggested a compromise: defund the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and the national parks could be opened. Lee is an idiot supreme and may not get re-elected after that move. Southern Utah commissioners and sheriffs decided to take matters in their own hands and open up some of the roads in the national parks in defiance of the Congress. Utah Governor Gary Herbert got involved. Along with the governors of California, Arizona, and Colorado, a deal was struck with Congress that each state would pay the federal government a few million bucks and our parks could be reopened in each of those states. The states would easily recoup the money from tourists. Also, the rangers would be back on the job to help with anyone who may need assistance.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"> Again, my posts are out of order. This post was originally posted between <em>Ode to the Olive</em> and <em>Ostuni, the White Pearl.</em></span><br />
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I chose to travel with VBT Travel, a Vermont based group that specializes in walking and cycling tours around the world.<br />
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We had two guides, Luigi and Fabio. One guide would be the last cyclist of the group, while the other would drive our van. They would switch off these duties every day. The van was there to transport tired cyclists, or those whose bike had broken down.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luigi to the left, and Mario, prepare a picnic lunch for us in a park in Castro, Italy.</td></tr>
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We would be given a set of directions, and maps, and could leave at our own pace. We all left within 20 minutes of each other. This allows cyclists to ride at their own pace, and we may not all be riding together. For example, on our way back from Monopoli, I rode with a couple, Chris and Robin. For the first part of the ride Chris was lead, and I was last with the job of shouting out if cars were coming from behind. The roads are very narrow. After a shade break, I was the lead cyclist, and I set the pace.<br />
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Our bikes are set up with water bottles, map/direction holders, and packs to carry things.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><strong>David and Jean - </strong></span><span style="color: black;">Wow! The heroes to all of us, David was 86 and Jean 84 years young! David cycled every kilometer!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><strong>Me-</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> Sometimes I think I need to get a part-time husband to travel with me! Then when we get back home he could go live in his own house!</span><br />
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<br />Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-20562087257018334262013-07-30T17:37:00.000-07:002013-07-30T17:44:06.849-07:00A Trulli Wonderful Day! <br />
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<span style="color: red;">I am not sure what happened, but this post is out of order. It should be between the posts of <em>Ostuni. the White Pearl </em>and <em>King of the Toilets.</em></span><br />
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While I would not be riding this day, this was my very favorite day because I was at last going to see the Trulli of Alberobello, Italy. Our group was shuttled to Alberobello, and I got to ride with Luigi and Fabio!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This empty trullo was for sale - I found the listing while walking around Ostuni. I asked Luigi and Fabio to stop so I could get this picture.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;"> The Trulli of the Itria Valley are a major draw to tourists around the world. The whitewashed homes with the conical roofs, and strange symbols have fascinated people for ages.</span><br />
For this day's visit, we would be in the hands of Mimmo Palmisano, a trulli historian and restorationist.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mimmo and his father restore trulli. His mother has a shop in Alberobello.</td></tr>
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According to Mimmo, the trulli, (trullo is the singular word), are based on homes in the area of Aran, Turkey. Eastern Italy had long been subject to raids from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). In the cases where the Turks actually lost a battle, they had a choice, stay and work for the Italians, perhaps as a servant, or go home and be beheaded for being defeated by Christian infidels! Mimmo claims Turkish ancestry, and told us that a great many people in Puglia also have Turkish ancestry.<br />
Trulli are built without mortar, and when the top stone is removed, the cone would come crashing down. This trick would come in handy when the tax collector came around collecting taxes on a home. If your home was demolished the taxes would be forgiven! Since the roofs were easily rebuilt, fooling the taxman, or the local lord, happened - a lot! Trulli were originally used for storage, or as small barns, with people using them as home much later. One cone roof meant one room. The more cones, the more rooms.<br />
The name Alberobello means beautiful trees. However, according to Mimmo, this is not the true meaning of the town's name. <em><span style="color: blue;">Bella</span></em> is the Italian word for beautiful. <em><span style="color: blue;">Bello</span></em> comes from the Latin <span style="color: blue;"><em>Bellum</em></span>, which means war. There was, at one point, a Spanish lord over the area. The poor people built homes in the oak forests, and kept them short enough so that tree cover would hide them, and they would not have to pay taxes. It was learned that the lord was also not paying his fair share of taxes to Spain. When someone from Spain came over to check on this man, the poor people were found out, and they in turn, told on the lord. This started a small war - Alberobello - <em><span style="color: #cc0000;">war in the forest.</span></em> The lord was relieved of his duties, and the people allowed to live in peace. This is a very simplified abridged version of what Mimmo told us. Had I been thinking, I would have taken my smartphone, which contains a recording device, and recorded Mimmos entire presentation.<br />
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Today, Trulli are protected buildings. Please enjoy the pictures! Alberobello is protected under UNESCO.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the top of the cone is the pinnacle. The design of the pinnacle was the signature of the trullo builder. This is a trullo church.</td></tr>
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While the outside of a trullo must adhere to certain standards of how it can look, the inside can be quite modern. There are trulli vacation homes that one can stay in.<br />
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-2718741545168272792013-07-28T21:18:00.001-07:002013-07-30T15:50:47.363-07:00The Colosseum Ancient Rome - the building that comes to mind is the Colosseum. The building was actually begun in 72 A.D. by Vespasian and completed by his son, Titus in 80 A.D. Given that these two emperors are famous for bringing hundreds, if not thousands, of Jewish slaves after the sacking of Jerusalem, it should come as no surprise that this building was built by those Jewish slaves.<br />
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The building's true name is the Flavian Amphitheatre, but has always been known as the Colosseum for its size and the fact that it was in the vicinity to the Colossus of Nero - a huge statue of the emperor Nero. (Which makes me wonder why that statue was still standing, as Nero had been kicked out of Rome and labeled a villain by the Senate.) Around 60,000 spectators could fill the amphitheater. There are four stories with Doric, Ionian and Corinthian columns decorating the exterior arches. The fourth story has Corinthian pilasters. There are 80 arches on the ground floor, of which four were entrances for the emperor and his family and the vestals. Only the entrance of honor reserved for the emperor remains. The entrance one went through for admission depended on one's class. Patricians in one entrance, plebians in another.<br />
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Similar to a modern giant stadium, the Colosseum was the origin of the professional gladiators, who were trained to fight to the death - although there had been similar fighting factions/units before the Colosseum was built. While the killing of Christians had come to high frenzy in the days of Nero in his <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Ager Vaticanus</em></span><span style="color: black;">, this practice was still in place in the Colosseum. One fact that I did learn while in the Colosseum was that women were not allowed in, unless one was related to the emperor. The killing orgies that took place were for men only. Historians believe that nearly 9000 animals were killed during the first 100 days of celebrations held to inaugurate the amphitheater! The arena could also be filled with water to stage naval battles! The Colosseum was usually uncovered, but in case of rain, a huge velarium was maneuvered by two squads of sailors belonging to the fleets of Ravenna and Cape Misenum. These two squads also took part in the naval battles that were staged. (How much water they used, and how they got it in the Colosseum, I never did learn.)</span><br />
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The Emperor Constantine, who allowed Christianity, tried to end the gladiator fights, but the Romans did not want to give up their shows. At the beginning of the 5th century, a monk named Telemachus came to Rome. One day he entered the stadium and tried to put himself between the gladiators. He begged the people to give up their bloody and inhumane games. The crowd hurled insults, sarcasm, and rocks, ultimately stoning Telemachus to martyrdom. That day the games were brought to an end.<br />
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By the mid-500s, the amphitheater was abandoned. It was used as a cemetery, a fortress, and after the earthquake of 1349, as a quarry for building materials. The marble that once covered the building was appropriated for the building boom that came during the Renaissance. In order to save what was left of the amphitheater, Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) consecrated the Colosseum by setting up a <span style="color: #b45f06;"><em>Way of the Cross </em></span><span style="color: black;">and raising a cross on the site. The cross was dedicated to the thousands of Christian martyrs who died in Rome.<br />
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</span><br />Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-19279924578621923932013-07-28T17:02:00.003-07:002013-07-30T15:59:19.738-07:00The Forum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ancient Rome: a fairly large city by today's standards. To make things easier for the citizens, forums would spring up in various areas. A forum had a covered market, a religious center, a civic center, and usually some kind of palace or circus. A circus being a place to race chariots.<br />
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Today in Rome, the Forum is a set of ruins next to the Colosseum. This particular forum is the oldest of Rome's various forums. It was originally an Etruscan cemetery dating from the 7th century BC. During the height of Rome's popularity, this was a busy place.<br />
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Around the 4th century, the area started to lose its importance, and by the Middle Ages it was a cow field. The Romans themselves plundered the area for stone, marble, and various pieces of artwork to decorate their homes, churches and palaces. The Vatican has an extensive collection of plundered material!<br />
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During the Renaissance a new appreciation for all things classical emerged. The area around and in the Forum was excavated in the 18th and 19th centuries, and archeologists are still at work today.<br />
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So let's look at the pictures while I describe them:<br />
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Before entering the forum with my group we were surprised by a group of Peruvians celebrating Inti Raymi - the Incan Summer Solstice celebration! Having seen this in Peru, I ended up explaining it to our guide and group members.<br />
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I am not sure what was going on here other than these were mystics of some sort. The man in orange sitting on the ground is hold a pole with a platform on which another man is sitting. My sister tells me they are street performers. The Forum is a fascinating place.<br />
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And for fun and tourist money, we have men dressed in gladiator costumes who will take a picture with you for 5 euros. I should have broken down and done it! Every now and then it is okay to do<br />
something cheesy!<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><em> The Vestal Virgins</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;">The Vestal Virgins were a college of priestesses who honored the goddess Vesta, keeper of home and hearth. These priestesses had a variety of duties not allowed to be completed by male counterparts. Romans thought that the well-being of the empire was in the hands of these women. Vestals had the power to stop an execution if appealed to.</span><br />
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There were usually no more than six Vestals at one time. They were chosen at anytime from the ages of 6- 10 years and usually from patrician families. They were under contract to keep their virginity for 30 years. Once the thirty years was up, the Vestal was married to a patrician man if she so chose. The Vestals had a paid salary, and a retirement pension! It was considered good luck to marry a retired vestal.<br />
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Should a Vestal lose her virginity (give it away! Because it is just not something one can misplace.), she would be buried alive as her blood was not to be spilled. The man in the crime would be flogged to death.<br />
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This palace overlooks the Vestal complex -I wonder why!</td></tr>
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Temples and Churches</span></em><br />
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The ancient Romans worshipped a pantheon of gods and goddesses. They basically borrowed the Greek gods, and gave them new names - except Apollo - he has the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology.<br />
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Here are a few of the temples/churches, with a few arches thrown in:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Temple of Saturn was always used as the public treasury. It was also a repository for the decrees of the Senate.<br />
An underground chamber held sacred treasures.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Temple of Antonino and Faustina - this temple was erected in 141 A.D. by the Senate and dedicated to<br />
the empress Faustina, and later to the emperor Antoninus Pius. It was transformed into a church in the 8th century - not the cross on top. The church is the Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail on the Arch of Septimus Severus. In this bas relief, Severus' sons Geta and Caracalla are shown. Geta was later murdered by his brother Caracalla, who later had his brother's name removed from the monument. Septimus Severus died of natural causes - a bit unusual for 3rd century Roman rulers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Basilica Fulvia Aemilia, built in 179 B.C., it was a shopping mall! It was later turned into a church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tower here dates from the Renaissance. Archeologists have been able to determine<br />
that it sits on the remains of the Mammertine Prison, the prison the Apostle Peter lived in<br />
before being transferred to the Ager Vaticanus to meet his death by crucifixion. The Apostle Paul<br />
may have spent time here as well. As a Roman citizen he was given a swift death by beheading.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to the Basilica Fulvia Aemilia. The columns of purple granite come from Egypt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An original Roman fresco in the Basilica Fulvia Aemilia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the original icons painted in the Basilica Fulvia Aemilia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple of Venus and Roma - This was a huge temple complex. Some of the outside pillars have been reconstructed to <br />
stand where they would have when the temple was intact. At one time this was the largest and finest religious building in Rome. In the 7th century AD, the church of Santa Maria Nova was founded on the ruins of the temple of Roma, then<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arch of Titus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This detail on the Arch of Titus clearly shows a Jewish Menorah. The arch was built in 81 A.D. to celebrate the Roman<br />
victories of Vespasian and Titus over Jerusalem, thus starting the Jewish Diaspora. Roman Jews, for years, would<br />
refuse to walk under this arch.</td></tr>
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06;">Interesting Details</span></em><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail was very important to the sculptors of ancient Rome</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Near the Forum is the Vittoriano, a huge white marble building. It was built to commemorate Italian unification and honor<br />
Vittorio Emanuele II, Italy's first king. He is the subject of this statue on the top of the building. I used my zoom to<br />
get this photo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A heart!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rome is fed by a series of springs surrounding the city. All over the modern city are faucets where anyone<br />
can fill up their water bottles with clean cold spring water. In the summer this is wonderful, and I never got sick<br />
from this water.</td></tr>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-50536000439939163612013-07-24T12:49:00.000-07:002013-07-30T16:06:44.515-07:00The Vatican - Part 3 - Saint Peter's Basilica When one pictures the Vatican, the first sight that comes to mind is St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The large obelisk in the middle of St. Peter's Square was brought back to Rome by the emperor Caligula from Heliopolis, Egypt. It was later used by the emperor Nero as the turning post for the chariot races in his circus, where he held chariot races and persecuted Christians. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atop the obelisk the Church has placed a cross.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;"> Piazza San Pietro, or St. Peter's Square is actually a large oval, and one of the world's great public spaces. Seen from the air, the piazza looks like a giant keyhole with two semicircular colonnades on each side of the basilica. The colonnades, consisting of 284 columns, four columns deep, and topped with 140 saints gives the impression of enfolding arms. The colonnades designer, Gianlorenzo Bernini did this deliberately. He described the colonnades as "the motherly arms of the church." During Bernini's time, a jumble of narrow streets surrounded the Vatican, and the open space with the open arms was very attractive. Unfortunately, Mussolini ruined part of the effect when he built the straight and wide Via della Conciliazone - which is quite the shopping area. </span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking through the huge columns reminds me of the Great Hypostyle Hall at the Karnak temple complex<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the gated boundary line of the Vatican. The building is in Italy. I was standing in Vatican City when I took the<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saints atop the colonnade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christ in the center. Paul to the left, and Peter to the right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sculpture above the colonnade is fascinating. At the top, one can see two keys.<br />
These symbolize the keys given to Peter from Christ.</td></tr>
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<em><span style="color: #674ea7;">The Basilica</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> The site of St. Peter's Basilica is on the site of Nero's stadium, the Ager Vaticanus. where Peter the Apostle was said to be put to death sometime between 64-67 AD. He would have been buried nearby as well. The first basilica to be built here was built by Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor in the 4th century.</span><br />
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The basilica stood for hundreds of years, but eventually fell into disrepair. In the mid-1400s Pope Nicholas V made an effort to restore the basilica. Pope Julius II was more successful. In 1506, architect Donato Bramante came up with a new basilica design in the Greek cross style with one large dome, and four smaller domes. He attracted a lot of criticism as the original basilica was torn down, and many Byzantine mosaics and frescoes were lost.<br />
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It took over 150 years to complete the basilica, which is the second largest in the world. Bramante, Raphael, Carlo Maderno, Antonio da Sangallo, and Giacomo della Porta contributed to the design of the building. In 1547, Michelangelo, at the age of 72, took over the project and was responsible for the design of the dome.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This canopy, known as the baldachin, stands over the high alter, where only<br />
the Pope can officiate. The high alter sits on the site of St. Peter's grave.<br />
All of this is under the great dome. It was very difficult to get near this to even get a <br />
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One can actually climb to the top of the dome. I was all for doing this,<br />
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After Michelangelo's death, Carlo Maderno took over and designed the facade and portico. He was told, by whom I don't know, to lengthen the nave of the building. Doing so altered Bramante's original Greek cross plan to a Latin cross.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From this balcony the Pope gives his weekly Sunday Mass.</td></tr>
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The interior of the building is fantastic. The basilica can hold up to 60,000 people. It is 187 meters long and 15,000 square meters in area. The interior is largely the work of Bernini and Giacomo della Porta. The basilica holds some incredible pieces of art. The main sculpture is Michelangelo's <span style="color: black;">Pieta, which he sculpted when he was 25 years old, and the only work to carry his signature. The statue is of Mary, the mother of Christ, holding her son's body after he is taken off the cross. I had waited almost 30 years to see the statue, and I was not going to let anyone shoo me away. It was a very emotional experience. As I was finally getting to gaze on this incredible piece of art, I was struck with the thought that this was not Mary, the mother of Christ, but Mary Magdalene. It was a very powerful thought, and no doubt art scholars will tell me I am wrong. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This statue, I think one of the St. Catherines, was quite high up, and hard for me to get<br />
a good focus on. My hands tremble as it is, and by this time I was very tired. There are statues<br />
of saints all over, and I would love to go back an photograph my favorites.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The list of popes buried at St. Peter's. Peter the Apostle would have been buried in the area<br />
following his death. Excavations under the basilica started in the 1940s. Part of the original<br />
basilica was discovered. In 1942 the bones of an elderly, strongly built man were discovered in a box. The<br />
box was hidden behind a wall covered by pilgrims' graffiti. These bones, and the surrounding area<br />
went through over 30 years of forensic examination. In 1976, Pope Paul VI declared the bones to be those of <br />
St. Peter. The tomb of St. Peter, and other excavations can be visited, but one has to book way in<br />
advance to do this. I did not know this was an option.</td></tr>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-85293229719845050242013-07-08T13:13:00.001-07:002013-07-30T16:15:13.972-07:00The Vatican - Part 2 - The Museums and the Sistine Chapel I went with a guided tour of the Vatican Museums, which includes the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. One can see St. Peter's on its own.<br />
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Not knowing if I was even going to get in to see these museums, I did little research before I left home, which was a huge mistake. Knowing what I was going to see, even with five million other tourists, would have helped immensely in understanding what I did view.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><em>Some History</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> The museums are a collection of various pieces of art that popes collected throughout the centuries. This started with Pope Julius II who had a group of sculptures that he had collected.</span><br />
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Through out the centuries various popes have added to the collections: Clement XIV, Pius VI, Pius VII, Gregory XIII, Gregory XVI (Etruscan collection, and items from Egypt), and Pius IX among others. Some items were painted under their directive. Some pieces were looted from the Roman Forum - okay, so there wasn't a law saying they couldn't take sculptures.<br />
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There are 54 galleries with the Sistine Chapel being the final gallery. I will go see these museums again someday, and I will do my homework before I go. Also, I think I will go during a month when there isn't so many tourists, and in the middle of the week! I am thinking a Tuesday morning in February. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The eyes in this tapestry seem to follow a person. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the Immaculate Gallery are various books holding the edict of Pius IX given out on 8 December 1854<br />
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<em><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> The Sistine Chapel</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> The last gallery on the museum tour is the Sistine Chapel. There is no photography or talking allowed in the chapel - which doesn't stop tourists from whispering, and guards from telling them to be quiet. The chapel is still a working chapel, and thus considered a holy space.</span><br />
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The chapel was started in 1477 when Pope Sixtus, for whom it is named, started restoring a chapel that was already there. A few popes would commission artists to work on this chapel.<br />
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The walls are covered with frescoes by Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio ( who was Michelangelo's teacher) and Cosimo Rosselli. Luca Signorelli and Bernardino di Betto (known as Pinturicchio) assisted in painting.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"> Pope Julius II, known as the Warrior Pope, with a few other not very nice names, commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo refused, stating he was a sculptor, not a painter. This started months of arguing between the two men. One does not say no to a Pope! But, Michelangelo made sure his wrath was made clear throughout the four years. He worked on the ceiling from 1508-12.. He painted nine stories from the Book of Genesis.</span></div>
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The movie, <em><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Agony and the Ecstasy</span></em>, starring Charlton Heston, has Michelangelo laying down on scaffolding to paint the ceiling. This is not accurate. Michelangelo built a kind of floating scaffolding, and he stood for 18 hours a day, six days a week for four years, doing fresco work. The movie does do a very accurate portrayal of how fresco work is completed, and Heston had to train under an Italian fresco painter to make this scene believable.</div>
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The ceiling is quite high, but that did not stop Julius from noticing nudity, which he opposed, and which Michelangelo refused to cover. Julius died in 1513.</div>
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Over 20 years, and a few popes later, Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint the <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><em>Last Judgement </em></span>on one of the end walls. Then Clement died. Michelangelo worked on the Last Judgement from 1535-41. Again, there was nudity which he refused to cover up. This time his argument was not with Pope Paul III, but with Cardinal Carafa, and Monsignor Sernini - both of whom declared the work, and Michelangelo as "Immoral and Obscene". They even started "Fig-leaf Campaign" to get the genitalia in the work covered up. To make matters worse, Biagio da Cesena, an assistant to the Pope, complained about the work. Michelangelo painted his portrait in a scene depicting Hell. When da Cesena complained to the Pope, the Pope's response was that he had no jurisdiction over Hell, and so the portrait remained! Michelangelo died in 1564.<br />
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During one of the first Councels of Trent, the Fig-Leaf Campaign was brought up again. This time the current Pope agreed to let Daniele da Volterra, a student of Michelangelo, paint fig leaves over the nudes in the Last Judgement. He also had to chisel out the paintings of Saint Catherine and Saint Blaise, as they were considered too obscene to stay in the chapel. He did not get to finish his fig leaves, as the pope died, and the scaffolding removed so a conclave could take place. Another artist completed the fig leaves <br />
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As no one was alive from the painting of the ceiling, and no one could figure out how the floating scaffolding was built, no nudes on the ceiling were covered. Although, I have my suspicions that da Volterra conveniently forgot how the scaffolding was built.<br />
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During the Sistine Restoration from 1980-94, Pope John-Paul II had the fig leaves removed and the paintings restored to their original status.<br />
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Even in a very crowded situation, the visit to the Vatican Museums was worth it. I haven't posted half the pictures I took. I will do my homework before I go again, as this is one place worth more than one visit. </div>
Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-61443224131959316912013-07-07T15:12:00.002-07:002013-07-30T16:19:34.769-07:00The Vatican - Part 1 - History and Geography As a very young child, growing up in a Mormon family, I had a not-so-secret wish to be a Catholic nun! We lived fairly close to the Convent of Saint Anthony, and the nuns who resided there could be seen all over town. I loved their long black habits. I wanted to be "a sister". I would parade around the house with a blanket trailing down from my head. I even had a nun name, Sister Mary Laurie. Then when I was five years old, <span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>The Sound of Music</em></span><span style="color: black;"> came out, and just reinforced my desire to be a nun, and when I grew up, I could marry Captain Von Trapp! (To this day, I still get goose bumps whenever I see a movie with Christopher Plummer in it - my first crush!)</span><br />
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I have always been fascinated with all religions, and have devoured all types of Catholic literature from Rumor Godden's <span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>In This House of Brede</em></span><span style="color: black;">,</span> to Evelyn Waugh's <span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>Brideshead Revisited</em></span>. Then, while in my 20s, I was a preparing a cultural refinement lesson for my own religion on Michelangelo and the Renaissance, and I came across a picture of his statue, <span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>The Pieta</em></span>. I knew I would have to one day visit The Vatican so that I could see this statue in person, so powerful was its hold on me.<br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>Lay of the Land</em></span><br />
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The Vatican sits 109 acres of land west of the Tiber River in central Rome. The population of Vatican City is a little over 800 people. The Vatican has been its own country since 1929 when it was made a sovereign country independent of Italy. The area where Vatican City sits has been a Christian site since the first century. The Vatican is basically two distinct states in one, the physical Vatican City, and the Holy See, which is the episcopal or religious state. The Pope is head of both.<br />
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Vatican City is a walled city with an opening at St. Peter's Square - which is really an oval - where lines are painted noting the boundary between Vatican City and Italy (Rome). To get in to the Vatican from anywhere but St. Peter's Square will require going through security, and this includes the museums. </div>
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<span style="color: black;"> The </span><span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>ager vaticanus</em></span><span style="color: black;"> was a flood plain west of the Tiber River. Swampy, and mosquito infested, it was pretty much left alone until the first century A. D. Then Agrippina, mother of Nero, started to drain the area for gardens. Nero, the crazed emperor, would later build a circus ( chariot race stadium) in the area. Not liking Christians one bit, he would feed them to starved wild animals, such as lions and bears, in between chariot races to keep the men in the stadiums from growing bored. It was during Nero's time that the Apostle Peter, was crucified at the stadium. The bodies of the Christians would be buried in the vicinity, and a cult of Peter's followers would set up vigils at his burial place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;">As Vatican City does not have its own army, a special arrangement has been made with Switzerland for devout Catholic men to serve as the Swiss Guards. These men must be between</span><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: black;"> 19 - 30 years of age, single, and have had served with honor in the Swiss Army.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: black;"> As far back at the 1400s, Swiss men were recruited to serve in armies or as bodyguards all over Europe. Pope Sixtus (1471-1484 for whom the Sistine Chapel is named) was the first pope to make an agreement for Swiss soldiers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: black;"> In 1874, the Swiss Constitution was amended</span> <span style="color: black;">so that foreign countries could not recruit Swiss nationals to their armies, but the Swiss could volunteer until 1927 when that, too, was banned in the Swiss Constitution. The Holy See is the only country for which Swiss soldiers can be recruited.</span></span></div>
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<br />Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-43503810774755555662013-07-04T11:29:00.001-07:002013-07-30T16:25:12.870-07:00How We Ate I should include a post on meals, as eating in Italy is very different from eating in the states. VBT asks if there are food restrictions so they can send this information on to the guides. I have allergies to seafood. I also have issues with gluten - too much and I get sick. I could avoid the seafood, but how was I going to avoid gluten in a pasta rich country? I did tell VBT about the seafood allergies, as this could land me in a hospital if I had any seafood. The gluten issue I kept to myself.<br />
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My first meal in Italy was gluten free. I was handed a menu at my first masseria. I wondered if I would have to order all the courses, so I asked, and was told I could order what I wanted. I found some ravioli made from spelt - a gluten free grain. What I did not know, but would later learn, was that spelt has been used in Italy from ancient times, and I had no problems finding spelt items throughout my trip. So there was one problem solved.<br />
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<strong> Eggplant -</strong> I have never had eggplant stateside that appealed to me. That first ravioli, mentioned above, was made with eggplant, and it was so good! In fact, I would have eggplant on almost a daily basis, whether I wanted it or not, and it was always excellent. It is making me rethink eggplant in general.<br />
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Our first masseria had an excellent restaurant.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the savory dessert, a cheese mousse with prosciutto. I prefer savory over sweet.<br />
It was evening, and this was the best lighting I could get.</td></tr>
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Some of our meals were paid for by VBT. Here we would gather as a group for four-course meals that started at 8 pm and lasted until 10 pm! Not our accustomed eating routine!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am sitting next to Gigi, one our guides.</td></tr>
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With the beautiful, and filling, dinners we were having, I asked Gigi, one of out guides, if four courses was typical in the average Italian family. For big family get togethers, and holidays, it is typical. But for every day, a two-course meal was the usual fare.<br />
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The four course lunches and dinners were something our entire group had to get used to. The portions are small, which helped, but none of us could completely finish a course, let alone four! I would have been happy with just the antipasto course, which usually had small finger foods. But then we would get a pasta course, a meat course, and finally dessert.<br />
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While I look like I eat cupcakes all day, I actually eat very little, and have no hunger pangs due to a thyroid problem. If I was not eating with my group or being prompted by my leaders to snack, I could have gone all day without food.<br />
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I would eat breakfast and found that adding ricotta cheese to my menu along with my boiled eggs was something I could get used to stateside. Breakfast also included fruit. Riding a bike for long distances requires carbs in all forms, and that includes grain. I found these delightful chocolate filled croissants....chock full of gluten, so I had to limit those babies! They were soooo yummy!<br />
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The best food I had was at Armando's masseria, where his wife, Rosalba, rules her kitchen with a loving but firm hand.<br />
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One night, in Ostuni, we went to a restaurant owned by a woman named Christina. The place was gorgeous, but the lighting was dim, so my photos did not turn out. For our group, Christina would explain each dish. The antipasto course had at least nine little dishes! I could have stopped right there!<br />
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At one point we had a guitarist come and serenade us. Being Americans, we started singing with him. At one point I heard Christina tell him, in Italian, to play quietly and to try to tone us down! I understand more Italian than I can speak.<br />
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At the end of the meal, our guitarist returned with Christina, who was holding two tambourines. She asked for a musical volunteer. I am not sure how I got chosen. She showed me how to beat along as we started to play one of the regional dance numbers, the tarantella!<br />
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<strong> Pizza</strong> - My first pizza was in Otranto. What I did not realize was the size of the pizza! I wish I had photographed it. It was delicious! As I contemplated how I was going to tackle this thing, I realized I had several days of two hour dinners previously, so I could handle this! It took me over 90 minutes of careful eating. Italians, as far as I can tell, don't have doggy bags! You eat what is placed before you, and you take your time!<br />
I would have pizza, by the slice, in Rome, and it was not great. It just depends where you go.<br />
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<strong>American fast food</strong> has come to Italy, but not as much as one would think. I saw McDonald's, Burger King, and Subway - which has the strongest foothold in Italy. I did eat at one McDonald's in Lecce. I also tried a Subway in Rome, and the menu was geared to Italians. It was good! Clearly the Italians like Subway, because there was a long line. It is always interesting to see how American chains are geared towards other countries.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only pizza item at a McDonald's was in a Happy Meal. I know McPizza is available elsewhere<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <strong> Drinking</strong> - wine was available at all meals, but since I don't drink, I cannot comment on the quality, though my fellow travelers enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> We had water bottles given to us with our names on them, and our guides would fill them each day. I would often add Gatorade powder to mine, as this was a humid climate, and I am from a desert. I was sweating, a lot. We all enjoyed the sparkling water we would get at dinner, or "water with gas" as it is often called. The sparkling water had a distinct taste that sparkling water in American does not have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Two things they have in Europe and not in America are Fanta Lemon (Limone), and Schwepps Lemon. I love the taste of lemon, and these were my Italian addictions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <strong><em><span style="color: magenta;"> Despite the amount of food I ate, I lost three pounds while in Italy! Yippee!</span></em></strong></span></div>
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Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-23189334480089049232013-07-03T14:02:00.000-07:002013-07-30T17:19:31.353-07:00When in Rome After our wonderful day in Lecce, we were transported to the city of Brindisi to catch our flights. This meant saying good-bye to two of our couples, who had other travel plans. Five of us would go on to a post-trip in Rome.<br />
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Upon arriving at our hotel in Rome, our VBT rep sat us down in the hotel salon, gave us maps, and started talking very rapidly about things to do, etc. The five of us just stared at her like deer in headlights. Finally, I told her that she needed to slow down, that we had just spent over a week in Puglia, where life is a lot slower, and we needed to acclimate to the big city. She apologized. Then she slowed it down a bit. Our hotel was within walking distance of the Vatican, and half a block from the Tiber River. So, we were in a pretty good location for seeing things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I call this the Red Empress Room. This was my home while in Rome.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I could not use the internet while in my room, but there was Wifi in the salon, which at any given time<br />
one could find several hotel patrons checking smart phones, iPads, and netbooks. Aww - we are<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Tiber River, named for the emperor, Tiberius.</td></tr>
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One couple had plans to meet a friend who lived in Rome. I had already booked a walking tour in the evening. The other couple opted to join me. We walked over to the Piazza Porto de Ripetta to meet our guide, Nicola - who turned out to be a delightful British woman living in Rome. While waiting for Nicola, we discussed things to see. This couple had been to Rome before. I knew I wanted to see the Vatican, and the Forum. We discussed the obvious tourist places, Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish Steps. I really wasn't interested in trying to find time for them, and it helped when they told me that both were not that big of a deal, and that my plans were much better! I only had two full days, and I knew what I wanted to see.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching as Romans and tourist cool off in the fountain at Piazza Porto de Ripetta</td></tr>
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As we walked south on Via di Ripetta, Nicola would point out interesting things, and give us a lot of history of the area where we were. At one point, she stopped us, and pointed out the Spanish Steps. Using the zoom on my camera, I got the following picture - now I have seen them!<br />
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We headed towards the Pantheon. The pantheon, which has been standing nearly 2,000 years, was built by the emperor Hadrian in 120 A.D. over another temple that had been built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 B.C. Pantheon is from the Greek <span style="color: #134f5c;"><em>Pan</em></span> (all) and <span style="color: #134f5c;"><em>Theos</em></span> (god) - a temple dedicated to the various Roman gods - which were really Greek gods with different names. The only god who has the same name in both Greek and Roman rites is Apollo. This was a place of worship.</div>
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Then Constantine made Christianity the state religion. So, the Pantheon was turned into a Christian church in 608 A.D. While not a place of worship now - too many tourists - several notable people are interred here including Italian kings Vittorio Emanuele II, and Umberto I. The tomb of Renaissance artist Raphael is also in the Pantheon. In the book and movie <span style="color: #134f5c;"><em>Angels and Demons, </em></span><span style="color: black;">the characters</span> go on a search for the Illuminati Church, and part of the movie was filmed in the Pantheon. The movie and book state that Raphael was originally buried in the Pantheon, but moved to another church. No, he is still in the Pantheon.</div>
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Outside of the Pantheon is the Piazza della Minerva, which is a fascinating place. In the center is a massive sculpture/water fountain called Elefantino by Gianlorenzo Bernini - a Renaissance artist. The fountain contains an elephant sculpture.</div>
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Atop this fountain is an Egyptian obelisk from the 6th century B.C. Rome has 14 Egyptian obelisks courtesy of plundering over the years, starting with Julius Caesar. Egypt would like them back, and Italy will not be giving them up. </div>
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From the Pantheon, we walked to the Piazza Navonna. Built on the ruins of an arena built in 86 A.D. by the emperor Domitian, it was basically covered over in the 15th century and for almost three hundred years was the city's main market place. There are three huge fountains in the piazza, with Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of Four Rivers - I translated that on my own!) being the most obvious. Depicting Catholic might, four rivers, the Nile, Ganges, Danube, and Plate are depicted, along with a horse, palm tree, and a lion. Atop is another obelisk, courtesy (not really) of Egypt!</div>
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Today Piazza Navonna is filled with artists selling their wares. I visited the piazza two days later to buy a few Christmas presents. Also in the piazza is the Palazzo Pamphilj, a palace built for Pope Innocent X, and now the home to the Brazilian embassy, from which pretty Brazilians can be seen on the balconies surveying the goings on in the piazza. </div>
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From the Piazza Navonna we headed to the Area Sacra which holds the temple complex where Julius Caesar was killed on March 15th - the Ides of March. Some archaeology work still goes on, but the complex is now Rome's cat sanctuary, where a variety of kitties live among the ruins!</div>
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We had planned on going on to the Jewish Quarter, but the gentlemen in our group stopped and said he was done for the day, and then stated "We are cyclists, not walkers!" I was secretly thrilled, because my feet were killing me! To walk the cobbled streets in much of Rome you need Sketchers, or similar shoes. I had brought Birkenstocks and my bike shoes. There was a sandwich shop nearby, so I got one, and hopped in a cab for the hotel. Taxis in Rome are incredibly cheap!</div>
Laurie Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09552233357647572160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263461736319605999.post-63223131993974488882013-07-02T15:11:00.001-07:002013-07-30T17:24:07.094-07:00Lecce - A Wonderful Surprise I love nice surprises. The next day we were transported to the town of Lecce. Lecce is a university town of 90,000 + citizens, yet, it has a slow graceful feel to it. The town name is pronounced<span style="color: #bf9000;"><em> lay chay</em></span><br />
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We were taken to the Patria Palace Hotel, a 5-star hotel in the middle of the historic district. Wow! The rooms have frescos painted into the plaster on the walls. Mine was a seascape - which I forgot to photograph.<br />
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It was getting near 1 pm - the start of the siesta when all shops, etc., close down for three hours. I took a nap. When I woke up, I decided it was time to go exploring.<br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><em>Baroque</em></span><br />
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Lecce is very much a Baroque city. Baroque is type of artistic expression that started in Rome in the 1600s, and spread throughout Europe. It has large sweeping movements, emotional elements and bigger than life aspects to it. A piece of Baroque music we are all familiar with is Pachelbel's Cannon in D Major. Trust me, you have all heard this piece of music, even if you don't know its name.<br />
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The city is also filled with churches, Greek and Roman ruins, and palaces. Given that I only had one afternoon and evening, I had to choose carefully.<br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><em>Four Churches</em></span><br />
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I needed a new watch battery, and the hotel staff were able to send me to a shop near an ancient amphitheater.<br />
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The shop and ruins are located in Piazza Saint Oronzo. I walked around and found a bookstore. I was hoping that I would find Italian versions of the children's classic <span style="color: #bf9000;"><em>Strega Nona</em></span> which takes place in Italy. They did not have these books, alas. But the store did have a large selection of vampire romance novels including the Twilight series. The covers were in English, but the text was in Italian. I did find this book - see if you can tell what it is about - I was able to read some of it, and I am hoping there might be an English edition.<br />
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Next to the book store was a McDonald's! I looked in to see if they had McPizza - not that I would buy that, but I was curious. McPizza is made here in the states - in Utah! I was going to go on my way when I saw a little nun coming out of McDs with her hamburger, fries, and shake! Well, if the nuns ate there......I was hungry, so I got a burger. What intrigued me was how many Italians were swarming the place, and how many children wanted the icky soft serve ice cream that McDonald's serves! I had been told by my concierge of the best gelato place - across the square. I just didn't get it. Why have soft serve when you could have authentic Italian gelato (which is literally Italian for ice cream)? I opted for the Italian version and was not disappointed in my choices of chocolate and lemon. Seriously, I don't eat at McDonald's stateside, and I can't tell you the last time I ate there before Italy. Probably when I lived in Turkey - over a decade ago.<br />
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Now, I was going to explore churches. Some would say that once you've been in one church, you have pretty much seen them all. This is just not true! The first church I went to was Chiesa Del Gesu O Del Buon Consiglio, (Church of Jesus of Good Counsel), which was built in the 1500s under the Jesuit priest Bernardino Realino, whose relics are in the church. He was later made a saint.<br />
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The next church was the Basilica De Santa Croce (Sacred Cross), which was literally across the street from my hotel. This church dates from the 1600s There is restoration work being done on the outside, hence the scaffolding.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Attached to Santa Croce are governmental offices, but this used to be the Celestine Monastery.</td></tr>
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My final visit was to the Church of the Alcantarines, <em><span style="color: #bf9000;"> Chiesa di Santa Maria Provvidenza O Delle Alcantarine</span></em>, which dates from the 1700s. The Alcantarines were a distinct group of Franciscan monks from Spain who wore only sandals, or most likely, went barefoot as a show of humility.<br />
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