Exploring VATICAN CITY: Is It Worth The Tour?
AUGUST 28, 2018 / VLOG NO. 136 – Is exploring Vatican City really worth the guided tour? I'll show you all around one of Rome's main attractions in the second episode of my Italy travel series, and I'll answer whether visiting the Vatican is actually worth extra money you pay for the guided tour! Either way, I had a great experience and I got witness a lot of history before me.
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Notre Dame Men's Lacrosse is in Italy for their Foreign Tour, today they visited Rome the capitol of Italy, Vatican City, and the Sistine Chapel. Be sure to follow their trip using the #NDLaxItaly.
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Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel Guided Tour
A summary of a 3-hour Guided Tour in The Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. Vatican (Rome, Italy).
We paid $38 (each) for the Skip The Lines and Guided Tour of The Vatican. I suggest getting the tickets at the official Information Booth or Agency. It was really worth it because we did not have to line-up the whole afternoon to get in the Vatican Museum. However, it is really cramped inside due to the amount of tourists organized by different agencies. I was really relieved that we went on the first week of April. I wonder how hot it gets during the Summer season.
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Rome's Vatican & Sistine Chapel Tour: How to Avoid the Crowds
Imagine standing in the Sistine Chapel, with just a handful of people around. Or walking through the Vatican City Museums with not one other soul... It is possible!
On our trip to Rome, we wanted to see as much of Vatican City's highlights, without the thousands of tourists, long waits and jampacked rooms. I am so happy that we took this small group tour with LivItaly because we actually got to learn a lot and ENJOY our experience.
You wake up EARLY but it is all worth it when you meet your guide--Giulia was amazing--and then you walk into the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel in the quiet hours of the morning before they are even open to the public!
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Hi Guys thank you so much for watching our series of VLOGS about Rome and the Vatican. Most people tend to ignore the fact that the Vatican is its own country, treating it as if it were simply an area of Italy, well it isn´t. The Vatican is one of the richest and most powerful countries on earth, a place with a rich history and that has some of the biggest collections of art in the history of mankind. This time around I'm taking you on a journey through the Vatican´'s main attractions including the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica (including the rooftop of the basilica), the Vatican museums, the history and the most famous pieces of art of this unique country. I hope you enjoy it, holy regards
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Our second day in Rome started with a 6:30 am jog from our AirBnB apartment in Trastevere to the Pantheon. We were overwhelmed by the number of tourists we encountered on our first day in beautiful Rome, so we thought we'd try to see a site or two bright and early when we rightly assumed that everyone else would be sleeping. ;)
We think an early morning walk or jog is the best way to see the city! There's little traffic and even fewer tourists. We had both the Pantheon and Piazza Navona pretty much to ourselves! The only downside of course is that it was too early to go inside the Pantheon.
We spent the rest of the day visiting the Colosseum and Vatican. We highly recommend purchasing your tickets online! That way you can avoid long lines, especially at the Colosseum. For the Vatican City Museum, you can purchase a voucher online and exchange it for a ticket at the Museum.
To our dismay both the Colosseum and Forum were closed - without prior notification - until 11:30 am due to an official government-sponsored event. Fortunately, much of the Forum is visible from the public sidewalks. In addition, there are several other spectacular monuments all within walking distance of the Colosseum and Forum including Trajan's Column and the Vittorio Emmanuel II Monument. We also took this opportunity to walk back to the Pantheon and go inside.
The Vatican City Museum is a treasure trove of art! Because of our delays getting into the Colosseum, we sadly had to rush through the Museum. But what we saw was breathtaking! It was also amazing to see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in-person!
From the Museum, it's a short five or so minute walk to the Vatican City where we headed straight to St. Peter's Basilica. We arrived around 5:15 pm, and the light inside the Basilica was stunning! We paid 7 Euro per person to take the elevator + 320 steps to the Dome. The alternative is to pay 5 Euro per person to ascend completely on foot via 551 steps. The 360-degree views of Rome from the Dome are gorgeous!
We enjoyed a simple pasta dinner followed by our daily serving of gelato! We ended the day with a walk along the Tiber River back to our place in Trastevere. The monuments and bridges around the river are beautifully lit up at night!
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Danny and Michael tour the best and most popular sights to see through Italy in Venice, Rome, Vatican City, Florence, and Milan. First experiencing the canals of Italy, Danny and Michael take notice of the maze like neighborhoods difficult to navigate through. They end up at the Piazza San Marco, which beacons its beauty throughout Venice Italy.
Next they head over to Rome Italy and take notice of dangerously difficult traffic to navigate through. Great outside views of ancient Rome are viewed at the Roman Forum. Next they head over the the Pantheon and see amazing architecture still left intact. The Colloseum is being renovated at the time but is still a great visit. Then they take a trip over to Florence Italy and see some amazing street performers. as well as the Duomo.
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The Top Ten Things to See in the Vatican Museums
10. The Egyptian Gallery - The collection is so interesting because of the relationship between the Roman Empire and Egypt. As you might know, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar both had relations with Cleopatra. The collection occupies five rooms; plan to spend about 25 minutes in each.
9. Vatican Gardens - Take a stroll past innumerable grottoes, antiquities and world-class landscaping. Did you know there are 100 fountains in the Vatican Gardens? Unlike the Vatican Museums, the gardens are never crowded. One way to access the Vatican Gardens by booking a full-day tour of the Vatican Museums, Gardens and Castle Gandolfo with The Roman Guy.
8. Pinacoteca - The Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) is one of the more modern sections of the Vatican Museums and is often overlooked. Get up close and personal to 460 works of art, painted by the likes of Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, Leonardo, Guido Reni and Giotto.
7. Pinecone Courtyard - Named after the colossal bronze pinecone that once stood near the Pantheon next to the Temple of Isis, the Pinecone Courtyard was designed by Donato Bramante. From here catch an amazing view of St. Peter's Dome. Sometimes the guards let you spin the giant fractured sphere sculpture in the center of the spacious courtyard.
6. Pio-Clementino Museum - The Vatican's Pio-Clementino Museum is one of Rome's best collections of ancient Greek and Roman statues. In the octagonal Belvedere Courtyard, check out the Apollo Belvedere, Laocoön and His Sons and the Belvedere Torso. Then visit the biggest and oldest bathtubs you’ll ever see. Nero's Bathtub measures an incredible 25 ft in diameter. The red marble it is made from is so rare, there is no way to recreate it today.
5. The Vatican's Main Galleries - The Gallery of the Candelabra, Gallery of the Tapestries and our personal favorite, the Gallery of the Maps. The painted frescoes of maps reveal how Renaissance Italians saw themselves and their surroundings. Predating a unified Italy by nearly 300 years, the Gallery of Maps shows the length and breadth of the peninsula circa 1580.
4. St. Peter's Square - If you're not planning on visiting the Vatican Museums during your trip to Rome, at least come here. This is one of the most famous and breathtaking squares in the world and the largest, open area of Rome. The piazza is encased by two massive arms comprised of four rows of colonnades. As you walk up to the square, it looks like two massive arms welcoming you.
3. Raphael Rooms - Raphael was one of Rome's most famous Renaissance artists who encompassed all the ideals of a Renaissance man. He designed and frescoed multiple rooms connected to the Vatican Museums. Among other masterpieces, visit one of Raphael’s most famous works of art, The School of Athens.
2. St. Peter's Basilica - Don't miss this! St. Peter's Basilica is a massive church filled with artwork from some of the most celebrated artists in history. Enter through a special door and skip the lines to get the most opulent church in the world. Once inside, admire masterpieces that include the La Pieta, Il Baldacchino, La Pieta, the statue of St. Peter and much more.
1. Sistine Chapel - Since the chapel is inside the museums, entrance is included in your Vatican tour. Now that the chapel is restored, every detail and color used in the treasured work of art is visible. Only when you are inside, is it clear why it is one of the Sistine Chapel is one of the most celebrated works of art in Western civilization.
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Close to St Peter's Basilica are the corridors of the Vatican Museums that attract 4 million people every year from all over the world. A marvelous journey that will take us through a constellation of 13 museums and see some of the greatest treasures of humanity.
They present the preserved and extraordinary legacy of culture, history, and beauty that the Roman Pontiffs have collected and preserved for centuries: this is the mission of the Vatican Museums today.
The Vatican Museums are plural as they are a complex of different collections, all extraordinarily important. Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman, Christian, and epigraphic, paintings of several centuries and the great Renaissance of Raphael and Michelangelo in the “Rooms” and the Sistine Chapel. And then there are the decorative arts, the ethnological collections, the historical collections, the carriages and the papal berlins, up to modern and contemporary art.
A dynamic museum where tradition and innovation find a perfect synthesis, able to render concrete what the Roman Church has pursued for centuries in her cultural institutions.
Tradition, to be dated back to Pope Julius II, to that 1506 which saw the creation of the “Courtyard of the Statues”, the most celebrated in Rome at the time, in the heart of the Vatican Belvedere. Then, the great museum era of the eighteenth century, passing through Canova and reaching, with Pope Pius XI in the aftermath of the Lateran Treaty of 1929, an organic and effective institutional order for the Museums, made accessible to the world via the portal opened in the Vatican Walls. Tradition that is protection, restoration, conservation and enhancement of the collections through study, research, teaching, international projects, conferences and exhibitions.
Innovation, which is indispensable today for the functioning of an Institution that receives millions of visitors each year, and where thousands of people, employees and collaborators, work every day. Innovation that enables the Museums collections to be appreciated in a dynamic and current way, and which through this new web site enables the most remote places of our world to be reached.
It is my hope that every visitor who enters the Vatican Museums is pervaded by that sense of privilege at finding oneself inside the Beauty that leads to Faith, and that this digital tool may also be a vehicle for knowledge, harmony and spirituality.
Pinecone Courtyard. The pinecone fountain is made out of bronze and was found near the Pantheon but was originally on top of Hadrian's mausoleum, water use to pour out of the scales.
The 2 bronze peacocks on each side also came from the Mausoleum.
Sphere within a Sphere.
The Octagonal court was the first of the museum palaces built by Pope Julius II. The statue of Apollo was the first statue in 1503 and later Popes added to the collection.
God of the Tiber River,
Laocoon group Statue.
Sala Rotonda was modeled after the Pantheon.
Floor is paved with a roman mosaic.
Bathtub of Nero Made of porphyry.
Bronze Statue of Hercules.
Juno Queen of the Gods and protectress of women.
Sala of Croce Greca.
The Sarcophagi of Helena and Constantina are two fourth century porphyry sarcophagi.
The Gallery of tapestry; Flemish tapestries, realized in Brussels by Pieter van Aelst’s School from drawings by Raphael’s pupils, during the pontificate of Clement VII (1523-1534), hang on the walls. They were first shown in the Sistine Chapel in 1531.
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St Peter in Chains being freed by the Angel.
The Room of the Segnatura contains Raphael's most famous frescoes. Besides be
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The Vatican City is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state (a type of theocracy) ruled by the pope who is, religiously speaking, the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various national origins. Since the return of the popes from Avignon in 1377, they have generally resided at the Apostolic Palace within what is now Vatican City, although at times residing instead in the Quirinal Palace in Rome or elsewhere.
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Rome Travel Vlog Day 2 // Vatican City // Pantheon // Trevi Fountain // Vegan
For day 2 in our vegan Europe tour, we travelled in Winter and still had an amazing trip, it was much less crowded then too! We went to the Vatican museums, Sistine Chapel, St Paul's Cathedral, Piazza Navona, Pantheon, Mami (more details below on this), The Trevi fountain and Grezzo raw chocolate. We had the best time and useful links are below:
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Rome in one day guided tour: Vatican City, Colosseum, Cruise on the Tiber.
With our licensed guide get to know all of Rome’s wonders in a single day, with a rich and fascinating programme lasting 7 hours, including a lunch break. The morning is dedicated to visiting the Vatican Museums. We have access, without queueing, at 8.10 am, before normal public opening hours, after a typical Italian breakfast with cornetto and cappuccino.
We begin at the Belvedere Terrace, to admire the Dome of St Peter Basilica, then we proceed to see the celebrated Laocoön and His Sons and the Belvedere Torso. We stroll through all the Galleries arriving, finally, in the place painted by Michelangelo, where the Conclave elects a new Pope: the Sistine Chapel. After we make our way directly to St Peter’s Basilica to enjoy the grandeur of the world’s most important basilica with its wonders like Michelangelo’s Pieta.
Leaving the Vatican City, we board our boat for a fantastic mini-cruise along the Tiber, with a 3-course roman lunch, and after admiring the city’s beauties from the boat, we disembark at the Isola Tiberina. From here we walk through the Jewish Ghetto before moving leisurely on towards the Roman Forum, where our guide unveils for you the ancient square, the Basilicae, the site of Julius Caesar’s cremation, the Temples and the Triumphal arches. After the Roman Forum we enter the Colosseum to visit it: the world famous landmark.
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Vatican City is actually its own city-state within Rome and one of the top reasons to visit Rome.
The heart of the Roman Catholic Church is packed with religious and artistic treasures.
In the Vatican Palace, you’ll find the Vatican Museums where you can see the acclaimed Picture Gallery which contains paintings by illustrious artists like da Vinci, Bellini, and Caravaggio.
The Raphael Rooms are also not to be missed. This is a suite of rooms decorated with frescoes painted by Raphael. The work in these rooms is considered among his best.
But the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are considered the best in the world -- the ceiling of frescoes by Michelangelo are widely considered to be the greatest pieces of art created in the Renaissance.
Vatican City is also home to a wealth of beautiful architecture.
St Peter’s Basilica is known as the largest church in the world, as well as one of the most beautiful. Designed by some of the best artistic minds of the late Renaissance, it lives up to its reputation as one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most reverent and divine sites.
Whether you visit because you’re on a religious pilgrimage or just because you want to see some of the greatest art and architecture in the world, you’re sure to feel fulfilled by the time you leave the Vatican.
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