M,
You're absolutely right. To my immediate right in this Vatican photo and about 400 meters is St Peter's Basilica. Then if you were to turn right another 40 degrees or so would be the famous balcony (if I'm thinking of the same famous balcony you are). The Pope's balcony looks over St. Peter's Square from the northwest and far beyond into Italian territory. There's a wonderful old movie about WWII, I believe, where a man wanted by Mussolini's soldiers is hiding out in the Vatican. Because of its sovereign status they could not harm him, and he often walked out into the square pacing back and forth just on the Vatican side of the white line, the soldiers aiming their rifles at him just in case he stepped across. Does anyone remember this movie and what it's called? I've been trying to find it for awhile now--I haven't seen it for about 20 years. It had a famous old-time actor in it, but I can't remember which one. It was someone like James Stuart, Carry Grant.....
I'd really appreciate finding out what the movie is if anyone knows.
Cheers,
Dallen
-----Original Message-----
From: m donner [mailto:maxivan82@...]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:53 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] a few photos
thanx dallen
your vatican photo suggests that the famous balcony does indeed look out
very substantially beyond the vatican boundary
& produces a world class instance comparable to the state house in trenton
nj looking out upon pennsylvania
as recently discussed
can you confirm this impression is true
m
>From: Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: "'BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com'" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] a few photos
>Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:10:01 -0700
>
>Hi Folks,
>I promised a while back that I would be sending some additional border
>pictures in time. I've been dragging my feet in this because most of my
>pictures are slides, and it is expensive to get them made into prints.
>Now,
>however, my department has just purchased a slide scanner, which will be
>valuable since I have many hundreds of slides that might be of interest to
>the border community.
>
>Here are three miscellaneous border pictures.
>
>1) The first is a close-up picture of the Vatican-Italy border at the main
>opening of St Peter's Square. I had promised this one long ago--sorry it's
>taken so long to send it on. The borderline is the white stone circular
>line where the granite pillars and chains are located. The wood barricades
>are for traffic purposes and to funnel people to entry gates.
>
>2) The second picture is the Italy-San Marino border near at the village of
>Dogano, San Marino.
>
>3) This is a picture from the US-Canada border where it runs through a bar
>(no longer in business) on the bottom floor and an apartment on the top
>floor.
>
>I will try to send many additional photos in the near future.
>Cheers,
>Dallen
>
>
> <<VATICAN.JPG>> <<san marino.jpg>> <<us-canada.jpg>>
><< VATICAN.JPG >>
><< sanmarino.jpg >>
><< us-canada.jpg >>
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