{"id":5388,"date":"2014-06-22T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:54:08","slug":"arriving-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/arriving-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Italy by Austin Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5396 alignright\" style=\"line-height: 18px\" alt=\"Vatican above\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Vatican-above1-224x300.png\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a long day of flying (thank God they had free in-flight movies) and layovers we\u00a0finally arrived in Rome. After we got through customs and off the bus we didn&#8217;t have for more\u00a0than 45 minutes before we had to head to the Vatican. Our guide told us about how the Italy-Vatican border changes depending on whether or not the pope is in St. Peter&#8217;s Square. \u00a0After lunch (for me, a four-cheese pizza) we headed to St. Peters basilica where we had to climb 320 steps to reach the top of the main dome.<\/p>\n<p>When we got up there everyone was tired and excited. The view was insane. We saw all of Rome and the Vatican. Needless to say I was ready for a good night&#8217;s sleep after such an amazing day.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Day-1-Pic-2-AH-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5399\" alt=\"Day 1 Pic 2 AH\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Day-1-Pic-2-AH--300x129.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long day of flying (thank God they had free in-flight movies) and layovers we\u00a0finally arrived in Rome. After we got through customs and off the bus we didn&#8217;t have for more\u00a0than 45 minutes before we had to head to the Vatican. Our guide told us about how the Italy-Vatican border changes depending on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/arriving-in-italy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arriving in Italy by Austin Hart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-italy-2021","tag-italy-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9314,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}