Scenes From The "Mostly Art and Some Food" Tour

As Cecilia led us from Capitoline Hill to the Pantheon, we went by some very interesting sites, as well as into the Chiesa dei Gesu.

Every so often WordPress loads the photos in reverse order of how I select them.  This is one of those times.   

Stag on top of Basilica of

St. Eustace.  Eustache, which

rhymes with moustache (and

if it doesn't, just pretend it does

it's more fun that way, was a

Roman soldier who

converted to Christianity

after seeing a vision of

Jesus while hunting.

The stag spoke to him in

the voice of Christ, and that

convinced Eustace.  He was

later martyred.  The rumor

that when Eustace was being

killed he exclaimed, "Oh deer!"

has not been substantiated.

Largo Argentina -- Roman ruins which

include the site where Julius Caesar

was killed by the entire coterie of

Roman Senators.  The gathering

was billed as a toga party and

the senators were told to bring

their own knives.

A demon peeking out from a priest's robes.

The Baroque church of Chiesa del Gesu

(Church of Jesus) is the HQ of the Jesuits

in Rome.  Construction started in 1568

A fountain in the courtyard

of Palazzo Venezia.

Fontana della Pigna, or 

Fountain of the Pinecone.

Pinecones symbolizes

spiritual enlightenment.

The fountain is made of

travertine marble and was

built in 1927.  It's adjacent

to Piazza Venezia in the

much smaller Piazza

San Marco.