arcticpenguin
16th July 2003, 12:23 PM
Pubilc Service Announcement
If you are going to visit the Vatican, be advised that shorts and bare shoulders are not acceptable. Dress accordingly. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6765431%255E1702,00.html
WITH temperatures soaring, tempers are flaring as the Vatican's dress police turn back tourists in shorts and bare shoulders trying to get into St Peter's Basilica.
Vendors are doing a brisk business selling paper pants and paper shirts - turning St Peter's Square into an open-air changing room.
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At the Vatican, authorities have erected signs showing that no one can enter the basilica with bare legs and bare shoulders. Guards - neatly dressed in shirts and ties - patrol the entrances.
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Not only the Vatican but the diocese of Rome and its hundreds of churches require what authorities consider appropriate dress.
But unlike the Vatican, most of the churches cannot afford guards and - in the heat of this summer - they have become cool refuges for the barely clad.
If you are going to visit the Vatican, be advised that shorts and bare shoulders are not acceptable. Dress accordingly. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6765431%255E1702,00.html
WITH temperatures soaring, tempers are flaring as the Vatican's dress police turn back tourists in shorts and bare shoulders trying to get into St Peter's Basilica.
Vendors are doing a brisk business selling paper pants and paper shirts - turning St Peter's Square into an open-air changing room.
...
At the Vatican, authorities have erected signs showing that no one can enter the basilica with bare legs and bare shoulders. Guards - neatly dressed in shirts and ties - patrol the entrances.
...
Not only the Vatican but the diocese of Rome and its hundreds of churches require what authorities consider appropriate dress.
But unlike the Vatican, most of the churches cannot afford guards and - in the heat of this summer - they have become cool refuges for the barely clad.