If I have learned any Italian word on this year’s trip, it is “chiuso“–“closed.”

“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an old saying I recall recalling.  One pic beside the other, then, must be worth either two thousand or a million (you do the math when the door marked “chained” stands between us and the church.)

Other photos follow the same motif (trust me, you don’t want to sit through that long-lasting picture show–any more than you want me to trot out the “bulleted list” format to give a go at testing the old memory).  Suffice it to say, “Chiuso.”