Rome

Here are different sights away from the best known.

Start out with the Museum of Purgatory the museum is situated in a little room in the Church of the Scared Heart. You will find photographs of objects which allegedly show contact from the souls in Purgatory asking for prayers from the living so that they can be freed to go to Heaven. See items such as bed sheets, clothing and books with finger prints and handprints looking like they have been burned on. It was started by a priest who travelled throughout Europe looking for such items displayed here. The priest died in the little museum a hundred years ago.

The Capuchin Crypt is a morbidly fascinating place as the walls are decorated with thousands of skulls and bones of thousands of Capuchin monks. Along the hallway there are bones stacked or whole skeletons dressed in robes of the monks. In the last of the chapels there is a message telling visitors that the monks were like us in times gone by and in the future we will be like them!

Now for something completely different…….. the Pasta Museum! It seems only right that there is a museum dedicated to something that Italians love so much and cook so amazingly.

You go through several rooms the first showing how pasta was kneaded on the gramola. Another room shows many celebrities enjoying pasta. You can read the proof that Italians produced and preserved pasta as far back as the 12th century.