What's the weirdest trivia about the Vatican and about Rome?

Question

What's the weirdest trivia about the Vatican and about Rome?

Answer 1

You must be so sick.......

Answer 2

High rate of homosexuality amongst the Swiss Guard (body guards for the pope).

Answer 3

Hello,

The capucchin Monks have a crypt that is decorated with the bones of over 4000 of their fellow monks.  It is on the via veneto by the piazza barberini.

The church across the street from San Giovanni in Laterano contains the steps that Christ scaled when speaking to Pontius Pilot.  They were moved here by one of the Emporer's wives and now people go up them on their knees saying a prayer on each of the steps.  

The statue of Marcus Aurelius(sp) and his horse that is in the square of the campidoglio is  a copy.  The original is in the museum  right next to it.  

The center of the baldacchino in St. Peter's basilica is in a direct line with the center of the dome and also directly over the burial vault of St. Peter.  

The gold lettering around the top of the inside of St. Peter's is actually 6 feet tall.  There is a walkway around part of the inside dome and if you look hard enough sometimes you can pick out the people as they look down.  they are very hard to see because they are so high.

The church of Santa Maria Maggiore contains fragments of Jesus' crib.

Donna

Answer 4

There's an awesome chapel in Rome decorated with bones and corpses of dead monks

Answer 5

campo dei fuori is a popular tourist spot w/ american style bars.  they used to burn witches there in center of the square.

Answer 6

Inside the Colliseum there is a certain male body part painted high on a pillar that points in the direction that you would go if you were looking for a brothel after witnessing an afternoon of gladiator and animal fighting.