Above: Inside the Colosseum

The Colosseum at night. I'm rather proud of this shot!

The Trevi Fountain

Get your ecumenical gear here!

Mass inside Basilica di San Pietro (Vatican City)

View of Rome from the roof of the Basilica di San Pietro (St. Peter's Square in the middle)

Inside the dome of the Basilica di San Pietro (Vatican City)

Tempio di Saturno and Arco di Settimio Severo at The Forum

Mount Etna (alt. 3.4 km) completely dominates the landscape in Sicily.

This is the view from outside the Azienda where we stayed.

The three craters at the summit vent volcanic gases continuously.

A local guide took us to a recent, but extinct secondary crater at 2200 m.

Etna is covered in snow even in April and May.

The landscape possesses a surreal, lunar quality.

Piazza IX Aprile, Taormina, Sicily

The Greco-Roman amphitheatre, Taormina.

Taormina is high up on a rocky plateau overlooking Etna

and the sea

North of Etna, the river Alcantara traces its way through the volcano's slopes, hollowing out its famous gorge, the Gole dell' Alcantara

Note the exposed prisms of basaltic rock in the gorge, formed from earlier volcanic activity.