{"id":8740,"date":"2015-06-23T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2024-01-30T10:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:08:47","slug":"day-3-climbing-551-steps-top-st-peters-basilica-emily-salverio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/day-3-climbing-551-steps-top-st-peters-basilica-emily-salverio\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Climbing the 551 steps to the top of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was the designated day to climb all 551 steps to the top of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica. There was a lot of talk about it and I didn&#8217;t think it would be <em>that\u00a0<\/em>hard. Boy, was I wrong. The first couple hundred steps were pretty easy, but soon after they started becoming progressively skinnier and the amount of air flow was also decreasing. At one point the wall was tilted inward and we all leaned as we climbed. 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