Castel Gandolfo

The Pope's Summer Palace and home of the Vatican Observatory

 

 

 Side of the building as seen on the walk up from the car park.

 

 One of the buildings at the complex lit by the setting sun

 

 The entrance to the Vatican Observatory... oh how I wanted to get inside and have a look at their library of early astronomical books!

 

 One half of Lake Albano

 

 The other half of Lake Albano

 

 An iMac on wheels... the Smart Car. Great for navigating old European streets and parallel parking, as well as being the source of unending humor for a silly group of tourists from Texas.

 

 Sunset from Gandolfo. I'm not sure what the water is that you can see off in the distance. I'm not sure if we were close enough to the coast for that to be the Tyrrhenian Sea (and I don't have a good map handy right now!)

 

 The view on the way up to Gandolfo

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