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Exhibit of Argentine gauchos opens in Vatican _ nostalgia for pope from the 'end of the earth'

Published December 07, 2015

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    A visitor walks past a fake horse displayed during the unveiling of the exhibition "Argentina. The Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith", in the Carlo Magno wing of Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, May 17, 2013. If Pope Francis is getting a bit nostalgic, all he has to do is slip into St. Peter's Square for a dose of Argentine culture. In a remarkable coincidence, a long-planned exhibit on Argentina's famed gauchos opens Friday in the Vatican's exhibit space just off the piazza. The exhibition will run until June 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) (The Associated Press)

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    Traditional Argentine facons, knives used by gauchos, are displayed during the unveiling of the exhibition "Argentina. The Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith", in the Carlo Magno wing of Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, May 17, 2013. If Pope Francis is getting a bit nostalgic, all he has to do is slip into St. Peter's Square for a dose of Argentine culture. In a remarkable coincidence, a long-planned exhibit on Argentina's famed gauchos opens Friday in the Vatican's exhibit space just off the piazza. The exhibition will run until June 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) (The Associated Press)

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    A visitors looks at historical photographs displayed during the unveiling of the exhibition "Argentina. The Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith", in the Carlo Magno wing of Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, May 17, 2013. If Pope Francis is getting a bit nostalgic, all he has to do is slip into St. Peter's Square for a dose of Argentine culture. In a remarkable coincidence, a long-planned exhibit on Argentina's famed gauchos opens Friday in the Vatican's exhibit space just off the piazza. The exhibition will run until June 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) (The Associated Press)

If Pope Francis is feeling a bit homesick these days, he need only go downstairs to St. Peter's Square.

The Vatican on Friday opened an exhibit on Argentine gauchos, the legendary horsemen of the pampas — a show that's been years in the works and coincidentally opened under the first Argentine pope.

Officials weren't sure when Francis might swing by "The Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith," which opened in an exhibition space underneath the piazza's colonnade. But if he goes, he'll find antique silver straws and mate gourds — containers for Argentina's traditional herbal tea — saddles and stirrups, ponchos, documents and a host of gaucho-inspired artwork.

The exhibit also highlights ties between Italy and Argentina, which received waves of Italian immigrants — Francis' ancestors included — over the years.

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