The Vatican and Sistine Chapel
Today we leave Italy for the Vatican City State, crossing the border into the smallest state in the world via our special check point for reserved visitors (no queue!)
The Vatican houses one of the world’s most extensive art collection of classical and Renaissance art, over 2000 rooms, a dazzling display of history and art.
We stroll the art galleries, richly decorated and lined with masterpieces of Roman sculptures, Renaissance tapestries and frescos while sharing with you the secrets and stories of the Popes who assembled this overwhelming collection for their private pleasure and enjoyment.
We reach the Sistine Chapel with some of the most spectacular frescos ever painted, in 1506 Pope Julius II entrusted the task of the ceiling decoration to Michelangelo who tried in vain to resist the pope’s will!
He finally set to work and after four years wrote to his father” I have finished the chapel… the pope is very satisfied”. Michelangelo had created scenes so beautiful that they are considered to be among the greatest masterpieces of all time!
A little door, reserved to licensed guides, takes us to St. Peter’s basilica, the centre of the Catholic faith, where we are overwhelmed by the grandiosity, by the regality and the splendour .
Michelangelo’s Pietà is the very first statue that welcomes visitors, is masterpiece of his early years, sculpted when the artist was only twenty four.
From the centre of the nave, Bernini’s Baldachin draws us to the heart of St. Peter’s,
we walk amid by the baroque richness of the largest church in the world. Statues, colorful inlaid marble works, precious mosaics, papal tombs bring us the imposing dome.
At his base we read “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will built my church….” We have reached the foundation stone, the tomb of the Apostle.
At his base we read “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will built my church….” We have reached the foundation stone, the tomb of the Apostle.
HIGHLIGHTS: Vatican Museums including the Sistine Chapel – St. Peter’s Basilica
DURATION: 4 hours
SKIP THE LINE ACCESS NOT JUST TO THE VATICAN MUSEUMS BUT TO ST. PETER’S TOO! With TRUEROME YOU MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME!
DURATION: 4 hours
SKIP THE LINE ACCESS NOT JUST TO THE VATICAN MUSEUMS BUT TO ST. PETER’S TOO! With TRUEROME YOU MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME!
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