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Vaticanul, unul dintre cele mai sacre locuri crestine din lume, atesta o istorie lunga si impresionanta si un risc spiritual formidabil. Conform legendei, aceasta resedinta papala a fost construita peste mormantul Sfantului Petru. Pozitia Vaticanului, ca un stat suveran in cadrul altui stat a fost garantata prin Tratatul de la Lateran din 1929, …

Our guide through Vatican City is Paola. We go through security and begin touring the Museum.In the Octagonal Courtyard, we see the sculpture of the Laocoon group. It shows Laocoon,a Trojan priest who had been warned about the Trojan horse, being punished. Also there is a statue of Apollo. We are allowed to photograph everywhere except the Sistine …

To avoid the crowds of people at the weekend we decided that the best plan was to visit the Vatican and the churches on our first full day. We asked at the reception about getting to and from the city centre and it turned out the best bus to take was the number 86 as it stopped pretty much straight outside the hotel. Unfortunately once more we were …

Para llegar al Vaticano nos tomamos el bus numero 64 y nos reunimos en la explanada de la Plaza de San Pedro. La basílica de San Pedro estaba, para variar ya, tapiada con andamios pero lo más curioso es que el Papa mismo pasó con un carrito sin vidrios saludando. Creo que pasó a unos 3 metros de donde yo estaba. Recuerdo que daba una muy frágil …

Meeting back up with Louisa (our panoramic tour of Rome) we began by queuing up to enter the Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museums). We ventured down to the Pinecone Garden which was named after a pinecone-shaped fountain flanked by peacocks. The original sculptures were Roman in origin and combined in to their current form thereby giving the gardens …

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 – Rome and the Vatican City

Today we visited the Vatican Museum in the morning. Thank goodness we had reservations to get in, because the lines wrapped around the walls of the Vatican, even before the doors opened! The entrance to the museum and the corner of the Vatican wall are a few blocks from each other, …

Today was the Vatican City, which was huge, though not quite as large as the queue to get into it! The morning started off badly, the bus company had the wrong time booked for us and so it ended up being over an hour late. We made it eventually though and the Vatican was well worth the wait. Everthing in it was amazing! Especially the Sistine …

Yes, the Papal Audience at the Vatican is on Wednesday. We didn't want to compete with ALL of the tourists in Rome, just some of them, so we opted to Visit Vatican City today. The Vatican is a HUGE complex, even though it is the smallest country in the world. We planned an entire day to see it properly, and I still don't think we did it justice. < …

We arrived to our hotel in the San Giovanni area around 11:30 am. Perfect timing to relax from the late night in DC (congrats to the newlywed Hunters) and the exhausting day of travel before our 3 pm appointment at the Vatican Museums. That was assuming a room would be ready. One was not. Exhausted and in need of some type of refreshment, we set …

We went back to the Vatican this morning, after an early rise and breakfast. We thought we were smart getting there an hour before opening, until we actually got there. It was a complete gong show.

First we had to find the museum entrance, as it in nowhere near St. Peter's, where we were yesterday. Luckily I had noticed a sign pointing us …

... trip commenced. We made it just in time, dripping with sweat from the 'marathon' we had just ran..   The Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel was absolutely amazing.. Equipped with an audio head set each, the tour guide explained to us the ...

... There were nuns and priests from all over the world there, all dressed in different colours.  Next, we went to the Vatican museum and saw many beautiful statues, some with missing pieces I might add, and works of art from Michaelangelo, ...

... impressive place I've been so far... ever? We took the tram to the nearest stop an walked past the line for the vatican museums, about 1km! Thought that was too long and we would come back later (internet booking would have been good!) so we went ...

Ci benedicta Vatican Joined the morning queues for the Vatican museum and although we were there at 9:30 there was a good queue building. On the way, Lee-Sia spotted a bunch of young priests who could have been mistaken for a boyband. She tried to take a ...

... ! Vatican city is also the country with the lowest birth rate....makes sense! Our first stop here was the Vatican museum.  This building alone is gorgeous.  The walls and ceilings are covered in paintings and sculptures like I've ...

... large part because being a part of a tour meant that we got to skip the lines and just make our way through the city.  We started at the Vatican Museum.  From the museum, you can see the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, as well as the grass ...

... even had Mummies and then I finally saw the Sistine Chapel. My photos are horrible because my flash doesn't work.  I left the Vatican Museum around 230 and went to line up to get into Saint    Peter's Basilica. The line was ...

... just above the knee down were at least damp.  We were so glad to be going indoors for a few hours!  The Vatican museums are extensive and one could easily spend a full day wandering and still not see everything.  We browsed the ...

Meeting back up with Louisa (our panoramic tour of Rome) we began by queuing up to enter the Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museums). We ventured down to the Pinecone Garden which was named after a pinecone-shaped fountain flanked by peacocks. The original ...

... than Pisa, plus their was a lot more art and statues and things around the place. After our brief visit, we headed to the Vatican museum. To get there we had to walk around the outside of the small city-states walls to the main entrance. Once inside we ...