The Vatican Museums, a collection of priceless artworks
Posted on 04 March 2010
One of the biggest and most visited museums in the world, with a great number of artworks, this is the Vatican Museum, opened everyday to many visitors. In one of our previous post we suggested you to visit the famous San Peter’s basilica, heart of the Christianity and place not to miss when in Rome. Located in Vatican City in the heart of Rome, there is another place you must not ignore, we are talking about one of the most visited museums in the whole world thanks to its immense collection of culture, the Vatican Museums.
A visit to the Vatican Museums includes a passage through the Candelabra Gallery, the Tapestries Gallery, the Geographical Maps Gallery and the hall of the Immaculate Conception. The visit passes then through Raffaello’s rooms, painted from the artist in a period between 1508 and 1520. This is not all, obviously, as we left as last the most important passages during a visit to the Vatican Museums: the Sistine Chapel, where the Conclave takes place and where you can admire the splendid paintings of Michelangelo’s Genesis and the Universal Judgment. The Sistine Chapel is the most famous part of this museum and it is known all over the world. This big treasure, Vatican’s pride, was completed between 1475 and 1483, when Pope Sisto IV asked Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint with his wonderful creations the new-born chapel.
The Vatican Museums are open from Monday to Saturday. The gates open at 9 am and close at 4 pm where the last guests can enter and will have time to visit it all until 6pm. The ticket costs €15.00. The reduced ticket is around € 8.00. There is also a school reduction of € 4.00.
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