11 March 2018

Day 3 - Roma, Italy

After lunch and the aqueduct we stopped at some churches. The first was designed by Michelangelo and includes the Prime Meridian inside.
 

It's a point where science & faith come together.  The Pope ordered it way back when to prove the church was forward and on the scientific edge of things
 

There's a hole for the sun to come through at noon and a hole for the light of Polaris to come through and they join along the metal lines on the floor.
 

Attached to the church is a Roman bathhouse -- because what else prompts one to take a bath and get clean more than attending church?
 

It's kinda like an old school baptismal.

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