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So this looks like a place where I can stretch out and make myself at home.  I like it. Now which way is home?

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  1. OK, ya are next to some bad terra cotta planters with mostly dead coreopsis moonbeams in them. We recognize the dead buds.

    But are you are Valdosta State University?

  9. I believe Marks Mews and ‘Kaika are correct. Well done! I didn’t know there was any grass at the Vatican.

  10. Oh no, we are too late. We knew that one because mum has been on a tour to The Vatican City when she was on a Med. cruise. It used to be a fountain and was sculpted in bronze in the 1st century. She thinks it was not in the main St. Peter’s Square but is beside The Vatican library and was originally part of a larger courtyard. She can’t be sure she is right about the larger courtyard so she is off to google it..

  11. We are back! The Court of the Pine (Pigna) is part of the Belvedere Court. She copied the text for anyone interested.

    Cortile della Pigna
    An internal grassed courtyard within the walls of the Vatican Museums, the Cortile della Pigna (courtyard of the pine cone) is part of the much older Cortile del Belvedere, sliced into six parts when Pope Sixtus V built his library across the existing courtyard. Now the Cortile del Belvedere, Cortile della Pigna and Cortile della Biblioteca provide a welcome breath of fresh air during your tour around the Vatican Museums.
    The pine cone in question is a four-metre high bronze statue, from around the first century AD, and which originally resided in the Pantheon. It was in the old St Peter’s before being moved to a raised plinth here by Julius II. Set before a huge, scooped arch in the walls of the Vatican (designed by Bramante) it dominates the courtyard.

  14. ::yawn::

    ::wakes up::

    Wha? Oh you’ve been found?

    ::stretch::

    I’m going back to sleep…purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  15. Well Chey, those smart people found you without any trouble. We sure are learning a lot on all these searches. This is really fun. Glad you got found. You are a long ways from home. Take care.

  17. No we meant you were right when you said the last place in the Vatican–we were not assuming the ugly building was a guess. We actually think it is quite artistic

  24. If you read on you will find that at least in the “old” days this was the site of the papal menagerie, from Wikipedia.

    Shortly after, the court was home to the papal menagerie. It was on the lower part of the courtyard that Pope Leo X would parade his prized elephant Hanno for adoring crowds to see. Because of the pachyderm’s glorious history he was buried in the Cortile del Belvedere.[4]

  28. We know you’re lying in grass. We recognize it even though most of ours has died from the heat and lack of rain. But now it’s raining, so the lawn will probably grow. And need to be mowed.

    You know, seeing you lying on the growing grass has suddenly made us very tired. **yawn**

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