I can’t tell you how difficult it was to get this picture. I had to take 25 out-of-focus ones before I finally managed to steady myself enough in the dark interior, from a distance of about 30 feet with the 300 mm lens. This is a detail of a famous mosaic of the Byzantine Empress Theodora in a procession of court ladies and attendants donating a golden bejeweled, liturgical bowl to a church. She is in splendid imperial purple robes (I’ll put an image of the whole piece above) and decorated with sumptuous jewelry. Her court ladies are lovely and also in their Sunday best. It’s just one of Ravenna’s wonders, and for a day ticket of only 9.50 euro, you can visit all the churches, many of them UNESCO World Heritage sites, in the city.