Rooms of statues, rooms of paintings, rooms of frescos, all predictably magnificent. But then, there, in the courtyard...they couldn't be...they are! Bathtubs!

And not just any bathtubs--like everything in the Vatican, these are super-size, and utterly elegant. Some more than five feet high and nine feet long, carved from a single block of fine granite or marble, polished to a mirrored sheen.

I overheard a tour guide say that Cleopatra bathed in this pink granite tub when she visited Rome ...could it be true?

There's not a lot to say about these, I just think they're beautiful.

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