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| Raphael's grave.
| Quite a story about Raphael. I wonder if, three hundred years after his
death, they were worried that he was resurrected or robbed?
| The gilded organ. (Yes, organ!)
Artificially
brightened.
| A movie, taken mainly for its sound, of the organ being played.
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| A sample side chapel, complete with sculptures (in relief) and frescoes.
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| Rome at Night
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| A rainy panoramic video of Piazza Montecitorio, complete with the third
Egyptian obelisk we spotted this day. The big building I focus on
during the middle third of this video is the Palazzo di Montecitorio.
| Via del Corso is a big, active, shopping street.
| Fendi, an upscale designer fashion store, has a building festooned with
decorative lights.
| A video of the lights. (Yes, they change, looking like stars falling or
water droplets dripping.)
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| A random building that I kind of liked.
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| Dinner at Sant Andrea Trattoria
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| Our dinner restaurant, Sant Andrea trattoria,
near the Spanish Steps.
| Inside.
Perhaps due to the rain, it was nearly empty when we arrived.
| Bombolotti all'amatriciana. A short tube pasta (a short version of
rigatoni) tossed with tomato sauce, hot pepper flakes, bacon, and
sage. You can't see the sage, but it does add something. Good.
| Saltimbocca alla romana: veal escalope (a.k.a. scaloppini) with ham and
sage in white wine sauce. Very thin, tender veal cutlets topped with
bacon and served in a fatty sauce. Good. The veal had the
"right consistency" according to Di Yin, unlike the one we ate the previous day.
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| Cicoria ripassata. Chicory sauteed in hot pepper, garlic, and olive
oil. I thought it tasted "green." It's fried in a manner of the
Malaysian kang kong that we like so much.
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| Fodder for Santa Maria Maggiore Panorama
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| Fodder for Rome Skyline Panorama
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| Fodder for National Gallery of Modern Art Panorama
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