San Giovanni

After visiting "my" church of San Clemente, we took a trip to a little place called The Lateran, the official church of Rome. I'm a visual person myself, so here's a picture.


So there you go, the primary church in the heart of Christendom. It's pretty impressive, and although it's hard to convey scale in photographs like this, I'm going to give it a shot anyway. Here are a series of shots showing the girls I went with today standing next to one of the columns you see on the first photo.















Yeah, we're talking pretty friggin' huge. And the amount of detail is nothing less than stunning. I do love column capitals, so how about some Composites?


What a crazy amount of detail for something 100 feet off the ground. And of course it only gets more spectacular on the inside, but I don't have time for that right at the moment. Instead, let me leave you with one last image to try to convey the sheer size of this building, bearing in mind it was first built in the year 313.