We had the wonderful opportunity to take a tour of the Vatican Gardens on Tuesday morning. It's not always open and they limit the number of visitors/tours per day, so we felt lucky to be able to enjoy these lovely grounds. The picture above is not one I took (because I haven't downloaded this week's pictures yet), but you can see more like it here. These gardens are basically the Pope's private gardens. They've been built up and added to since 1279.
Our guide was excellent. She gave us lots of information--historical, botanical, and cultural (apparently the guide for the other half of the group spent most of her time giving them botanical info). She let us pause to take pictures, she even took one of the entire group at the end of the tour. Many of our students felt this visit was the highlight of their trip here so far. I really enjoyed it too. Especially when we got hit by the sprinklers and got kind of wet--helped cool us all down!
Now you are baptized Catholic!? Don't they use holy water to water the pope's garden?
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