[ID: A large white exterior wall into which is set an equally large green door, with a sunburst pattern and a shield logo atop it, then panels of green, with green metal handles and a keyhole. Blurred people stand in line to peer through the keyhole.]
This is the door to the Priory of the Knights of Malta, in which is set the popular tourist attraction, the Aventine Keyhole. Here's the keyhole:
[ID: A photo of the extremely worn door, with the green paint worn away from both the panels and the wood framing. Set into the door is a decorative keyhole with fancy frills around the edge, also worn bare.]
When you look through it, you're supposed to be able to see through a lovely park to the dome of St Peter's Basilica. I don't know if this photo is clear enough to show it, but this morning what I saw...
Was a landscaper's truck.
[ID: A blurry shot through the Aventine Keyhole, showing a hint of the dome of the basilica, behind a less blurry flatbed truck stocked with landscaping tools.]
Everyone else looked a little sour but I burst out laughing. What an omen. Anyway I walked a block north to the Giardino degli Aranci and
[ID: The dome of St. Peter's Basilica, a large white dome with a little doodad on top, rising out of the landscape of Roman architecture surrounding it, against a grey-blue sky.]
There's the bitch!
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Stained Glass Window above the Altar at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
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View of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica from the "Vittoriano" monument, also known as The Altar of the Fatherland. Rome, Italy (©)
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