A glowing jewel in the Roman night — this dramatic long-exposure chrome-era postcard captures the Fountain of the Exedra (Fontana delle Naiadi) at Piazza della Repubblica ablaze in golden and green illumination, its central naiad figure shooting a luminous jet skyward while swirling car headlight and taillight trails wrap the roundabout in ribbons of red and amber. Completed in 1901 by Mario Rutelli, the fountain replaced an earlier basin and caused a scandal when the voluptuous bronze naiads were unveiled; by 1971, when Betty mailed this card from Rome to Therese in Canal Fulton, Ohio, it had become one of the city's most beloved nighttime spectacles. Betty writes with breathless enthusiasm that she had come from Ireland the day before, that Rome was "extremely hot — 100+" — quite a shock after the green, friendly Irish countryside — and that the group was set to have a Wednesday audience with the Pope, a remarkable pilgrimage highlight. The postmark reads 10.8.71 from Roma Ferrovia (the central rail station post office), lending this modest card a vivid slice of Catholic American travel in the early 1970s.