Understanding Rome

Crystal chandeliers which once graced the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan in a church dating to the late fourth century. Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio is, if you will, very much dinner AND a show.

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Today’s jaunting began with a private visit to Palazzo Colonna and concluded with a very special foray to St Peter’s where we meandered by Carlomagno and glimpsed Pope Leo holding the funeral Mass for Cardinal Ruini