Swiss guards and a lone Italian Carabiniere guarding the entry to the Vatican in Rome… (late 1800s)

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Was the Vatican walled back then?

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The Shore Temple, 8th century Shiv temple built under the reign of Narasimhavarman II of the Pallava dynasty, Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India, photographed in 1885 »

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