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Get ready, Trevi, Go! Ancient fountains, peerless art, tasty Cornettos - there's no place like Rome, according to PHIL ARGENT.

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date: 28-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Get ready, Trevi, Go! Ancient fountains, peerless art, tasty Cornettos - there's no place like Rome, according to PHIL ARGENT.(Features)

Article Excerpt
Byline: PHIL ARGENT

AS I'M standing at a window, the Pope is on the street below me, waving. Shouldn't this be the other way around? I wasn't even expecting to see a Pope, let alone receive a wave from one.

It's more than 30 years since I was in Rome, the year before the one which would see three different Pontiffs.

It's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and my hotel, Casa Howard, on Via Capo le Case, just happens to be on the route Pope Benedict took after giving an address at the bottom of the Spanish Steps.

Crowds had been gathering for hours. Now, four nuns stand behind the crash barriers in silent prayer, seemingly oblivious to the hubbub around them.

Motorcycles stream down the Via Due Macelli, police perk up, shouting...

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