Roma Trip Overview
Your tour starts with the Vatican Museums, filled with works from the huge collection by the Catholic Church, then you visit the Cortile Della Pigna, which has a huge bronze pine-cone discovered in the Baths of Agrippa. Moving forward you will see the Cortile Ottagono which contains vast sculptures such as the Laocoön and the Belvedere Apollo and move to the Hall of Muses, which contain statues of Apollo as holding the lyre and portraits of famous Greek men. After the hall, you will witness the Gallery of Candelabra, this room contains classical roman sculpture which dates from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. Gallery of Maps and Tapestries where the panels map the entirety of the Italian peninsula in large-scale frescoes, each depicting a region as well as a perspective view of its most prominent city and ending the tour in the Sistine Chapel, witness the frescos that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
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Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Your tour starts with the Vatican Museums, filled with works from the huge collection by the Catholic Church, then you visit the Cortile Della Pigna, which has a huge bronze pine-cone discovered in the Baths of Agrippa. Moving forward you will see the Cortile Ottagono which contains vast sculptures such as the Laocoön and the Belvedere Apollo and move to the Hall of Muses, which contain statues of Apollo as holding the lyre and portraits of famous Greek men. After the hall, you will witness the Gallery of Candelabra, this room contains classical roman sculpture which dates from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. Gallery of Maps and Tapestries where the panels map the entirety of the Italian peninsula in large-scale frescoes, each depicting a region as well as a perspective view of its most prominent city and ending the tour in the Sistine Chapel, witness the frescos that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
You will visit with a guide a display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
The Sistine Chapel or Cappella Sistina is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna (‘Great Chapel’), the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1473 and 1481. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescos that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
Duration: 15 minutes
