The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

Here is a very gothic style building.

There are many carvings all over the outside, including this webbed foot long necked dinosaur?

And this super long necked dragon.

And locusts.

And chicken dragon?

And beheadings, who doesn’t like a good beheading?

I can understand why touching Jesus’s leg might be lucky, but the guy whipping him? Why are people rubbing that?

David is fighting the lion without even waking up the pigeon on his head.

Even in stone they try to shoo away the pigeons.

I don’t really have words for this one.

The gargoyles were lions with cannon mouths that you carry over your shoulder.

Matt says they probably weren’t like that to begin with and they added the tubes to extend where the water fell.

Sometimes the statues helped by opening their mouths more so they could fit the tubes in.

This is just a pretty window, because we don’t want to end on something so violent.

This is a column that saved Saint Ambrose from the devil. See the horn marks. Kerri is much taller than the devil.

This is one of the oldest basilicas in Italy.

Considering its age it is pretty fancy inside.

Ambrose along with two others are relics of the basilica.

Unlike many relics they don’t cover the face at all. He had pretty healthy teeth for the 4th century.

There are nice mosaics and carvings throughout.

This is THE snake that cured all the wandering Israelites in the desert. Moses was also thousands of years ahead of his time in both artistic style and technology.

There were some happy sheep and wolves? looking down on the benches.

The pulpit was pretty elaborately carved. No idea what the scene is though. We don’t remember any tiny flying horses.

This was a tiny church that was tricky to find.

It looks bigger when you are in the middle but the center area is an optical illusion.

It was a neat little church to visit.

We could climb up the Duomo and actually wander quite a bit on the roof of the building.

It went up even higher.

It was pretty cool to see all the architecture up close.

The view was cool and not really sure what that building is off in the distance. It looks a little strange like they decided they wanted to build wider about halfway up.