#Italy And Vatican City

[illustratus]

A view of the interior of Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg

[ancientsstudies]

St. Peter's Basilica by sohhhaibbb.

[artesie]

Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Italy. Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino.

[nobeerreviews]

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

(Vatican)

[emaadsidiki]

Sunset upon Tiber 🌇

[vintageeurope]

Vatican City 1880

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Piazza San Pietro, Città del Vaticano, Roma, ITALIA

[pedroam-bang]

The Borgias (2011-2013)

[missnothing22]

Rome, Italy

Photography by Karina Wieclawska

[adastria]

St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

[showamagicalgirls]

I cannot believe that the Catholic Church has unveiled what is basically a magical girl named Luce.

I mean, seriously.

Apparently 2025 is some kind of every-quarter-century jubilee year and the church is trying to embrace its connection to pop culture as a form of youth outreach.

I guess we do know that Italy particularly loves magical girls and anime in general. The design actually did come from an Italian firm but one who is so Japanese-influenced that even the name is Japanese - Tokidoki.

Anyway, I have to say, I kind of love her. I will certainly be buying an action figure, partially because this is so bizarre and interesting. I can't wait to find out more of Luce's story.

[illustratus]

Lucrezia Borgia by Pinturicchio

Detail from the Disputation of St Catherine of Alexandria

[wanderlustfuldays]

Vatican City from Castel Sant'Angelo Rome, Italy

[jupiterovprsten]

Vatican City, Vatican

[wandering-italy]

St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican

Rome, Dec. 2016

[victusinveritas]

June 1944: American soldiers converse with a Swiss Guard man at the Vatican in Rome.