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Swiss guards in uniform on duty on a cobblestone street at the Vatican. Above them is an elevated walkway above an arch, one of many elevated walkways optimizing passage without stairways throughout the maze of the Vatican, ideal for the old popes and cardinals constantly at work there. Even the modern elevators have a bench in the elevator! In the elevator! Because old guys need to sit down!

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Swiss guards in uniform on duty on a cobblestone street at the Vatican. Above them is an elevated walkway above an arch, one of many elevated walkways optimizing passage without stairways throughout the maze of the Vatican, ideal for the old popes and cardinals constantly at work there. Even the modern elevators have a bench in the elevator! In the elevator! Because old guys need to sit down!
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Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 07:07:22 JST Ada Palmer
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This is why the Vatican has so many weirdly shallow staircases—popes are old so the Vatican was a palace expecting to always host a disabled monarch, so it’s full of built-in accommodations, the most complex and fascinating accessible architecture case study in the world. 18/?

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