Madelyn's Gift: Adventure 2

I decided that steeple-climbing could be appropriately interpreted as bell-tower climbing, even though this was technically not a church steeple. It's as close as I can get, since in Rome, no church can be higher than St. Peter's. This is the Torre del Mangia in Siena, which stands above the piazza in which the Sienese hold their world-famous Palio, the summer horse race.

It was quite a fun little adventure! I don't think my climb reaches nearly the level of some of Madelyn's, since this tower was only 289 feet tall. According to Wikipedia, it's one of the top three tallest secular-built towers in medieval Italy, though.