In the last weeks of May, my family and I went on a Disney Cruise in the Med. We embarked at Barcelona, Spain, and went to Malta, Tunis, Naples,  Civitavecchia, Corsica, and Southern France. Although I have been to central Europe, this was my first trip farther south.

One of the stops we wanted to make was at Pisa to see the leaning tower. Once we got there, I was impressed with the care and maintenance of the location. The leaning tower is lovely, the cathedral a little too baroque for my tastes, but the baptistry was the most striking spot we visited there (now that I’m in my 50s I decided not to climb the stairs on the tower, unlike going up the Stature of Liberty when in my 20s….)

The structure of the baptistry is similar on the inside to the capital building in Washington, DC. Both have a special structure in the top that captures sounds and magnifies them. There is a guard on duty there that tolls the time on the hour and half hour. The balding gentleman in the video is the one doing the chanting. The camera was new to me and so I just barely caught the start of the chant and edited the part out (mostly)  where I had the camera misoriented (just pretend you are at sea….)