Marcus Aurelius Column #1 Toddler T-Shirt

We were in Piazza Colonna for a long time. It seemed like it was a long time to me! I was not used to the amount of time Latin required. I got used to it over the course of days.There was a lot of Latin to decipher on the base of the column. This suited me as there is a real cool fountain (Fontana di Piazza Colonna) on the north end of the piazza on the edge of a busy street. There also were the buildings surrounding the piazza to survey. In any case St. Paul climbed up there on top of the column at the behest of Pope Sixtus V some time around 1589 to replace what was probably a sculpture of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus climbed down at some unknown previous date — probably unwillingly. Really intriguing is that inside the column is a spiral staircase which for a fee one could in the distant past — climb. I probably would pass at any cost and in any century as there is only one way up and down. I bet it was stuffy inside the column even though air and light had egress through slits in t...

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