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Vatican City Slideshow
Vatican City
Travel Blogs from Vatican City, Italy
So Who Painted This?
... , but quite smaller than I had imagined and filled with people shoulder to shoulder. We quickly made it out. My final thoughts on the Vatican city and museum: go there if you want to see the touristy side of Rome because that is all you will get. We ...
The early bird gets no lines
... full of people and the line to get in was at least three hours long. we went into the post office in vatican city, the only reliable post in all of italy, and sent off some cards. then we made our way to the line for the sistine chapel. in my estimation ...
Queuing ... and some artwork
... paid 80 cents for one, and here it was 50 cents. We quickly wrote out our cards and sent them on their way with official Vatican City stamps, then reentered allergy hell where we had lunch and took the metro back to the hotel. In that short amount of time ...
Praying to get to Vatican City
... top of the dome to get a closer look at the beautiful artwork on the ceiling. From there we walked around to the Vatican Museum and admired all there lovely treasures and admired more beautiful artwork that line the walls. Then we finally made it, the ...
Mojo Station Blues Festival
... paths our lives have taken, and work out some preliminary ideas for showing my film in Firenze and, hopefully, other venues around Italy where she has connections with the local film societies. So all in all we had a ball at the Mojo Station Festival, ...
Citta del Vaticano
... five minutes. (I contributed 10 Euro for our pair of umbrellas.) We lucked out and literally walked strait into the Vatican Museum... no two hour wait like we expected. However, inside... imagine the crowds at Disney World put them inside ...
Musei Vaticani
... God, I was with the group and they held the line for me, thank you! It was 14 euros to get in. The Vatican Museum has 8 museums, five galleries and the Sistine Chapel, which is the private chapel of the Popes. There were ceilings and ceilings of ...
The vatican
... are people everywhere. It is surrounded by great columns of stone. And at the end stands the great cathedral of the Vatican city. We eventually make our way inside - and all we can say is "wow"! It's just spectacular. The ceiling ...
Lunch at the Boss' House
... about Michael Angelo's picture of Adam. 'What anatomical error did Michael Angelo make?" He had a belly button. The vatican simply blows you away. We spent hours there and could easily go back tomorrow and continue the journey. The Basilica ...
St. Peters Basillica and the Pope
... Palace. After this I headed out and grabbed som Gelato, buoght a tshirt and a Rosarie of all things and headed to the Vatican Meusum. I arrived to findit closed. I had mistakenly read it was open on Sunday. Its only open on the LAST sunday of ...
The Vatican
Day 3 in Rome was spent at the Vatican. We first went to St Petes Basilica but ended up below in the crypt. We saw the tombs of the past popes. We found our way up into the behemouth basilica and spent a good hour marvelong at the sculptures, ...
Vatican has no passport stamp :(
... , I missed the Egypt room all together looking for the chapel and then learned you can't go back. Blimey. I would suggest doing Vatican City in 2 days. That way you can get there early both days and avoid the lines. One for the basilica, one for the ...
Gods army
Crossed the river and got to the Vatican,. massive queues, but an awesome exterior- also sneaked around a corner to catcha snap of the Swiss guards (The Italian cops with guns weren't as photogenic) beofre exploring Castle Angelo (its in Rome), ...
To the Dome!
... up top for quite some time, before being ushered out, as it was time to close. The view was well worth the hike and it was really cool to see out over not only the Vatican City, but also the greater city of Rome that we’d be exploring ...
Vatican City
... , took a trip to an entirely different country today (is it still a separate country? Nobody wanted to stamp my passport). The Vatican City was a very strange experience for me. I had taken trips to the heart of Mormonism and the heart of Adventism, ...
The Vatican
We changed our travel plans after learning that everything at The Vatican was closed yesterday for "Little Easter," as the Romans call it. We were scheduled to go to Naples last night, but we postponed that so we could go to The Vatican this morning. ...
Catholics Unite! Along with every other tourist.
... Vatican. I was going to mail a letter. One of the really interesting things about the Vatican is that they maintain their own postal system, and have their own euro with the Popes face on it. I really want to ...
Roma or Iowa?
... hacked off. Interestingly enough, there is a room (not open to the public) that contains all of these castrated appendices. Lately, the Vatican has come to their senses and realized the fig leaf wasn't such a great idea, and so now must preserve the ...
Sep 15, 2009
A papal visit
Off for tea with the pope... we got told off by the vatican police for sitting on the steps of the obelisk in the St. Peter's Square. ...
St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican
... They were gone awhile and had two each. (A little wired, anyone???) Today was our day to visit St. Peter’s Basilica and The Vatican Museum. We decided to go to St. Peter’s first (mostly because it’s the line we found first ;). There were ...
Vatican City - Holy See.
... it started to pour down, we spent about an hour or so in the banks foyer then headed to catch the bus back. Footnote: Vatican City and the Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and Sao Paolo ...
The Wonder, Glory, Agony and Ecstasy of Sistine!
Have you ever wondered what it was like to visit the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome, Italy? Do you dare to be overcome with humility and awe as you stare unto the heavens? As you decipher the panels and journey through the story of man and time? ...
Visiting with the Pope
... , yogurt, cereal, croissants, etc. Around 11am, we made our way to the metro station and headed to the Vatican Museum in Vatican city. There was quite a line, but it was moving quickly. And, there were handbag vendors selling fake Gucci's and Prada's ...
Benny
... don't get warmed up by our body temperature. Jacki got tickets months ago, you had to request them directly from the Vatican. I don't know how to explain the tour well without being a little longwinded, so bear with me. When St. Peter ...
Papal Power
... all and sundry as it's All Saints Day. We missed Benny 16 though as we had made an early start to get to the Vatican Museum. The most notable exhibit here is the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michael Angelo, but also excellent are the Raphael rooms. I ...
Visit to the Pope
... City exploring. We had our breakfast in the hotel again, then went to the train station where we took a short tram ride to Vatican City. After leaving the station, the Vatican wasn't hard to find. We followed the signs and the people, and eventually ran ...
Visit to Vatican Museums
... initial plan was to take the train from just inside the Grande Annulare (beltway), since it has a stop very close to the Vatican. Unfortunately we discovered the Annulare was bumper-to-bumper at the on-ramp, so we drove on into San Giovanni where ...