Roma Trip Overview
Do you want to know more about the genius Michelangelo? This visit is perfect do learn about him. Stories, secrets and much more that you’ve never heard before! Bypass the queues with your skip-the-line ticket for an immediate entry to the museum complex. Walk through several of the museums galleries and room; admire the amazing collections. You then work your way towards the stunning Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo’s iconic frescoes; The Last Judgements and the Creation of Adam. The tour proceeds to the Dome with its spectacular mosaics and stucco embellishments. End your tour in St. Peter’s Basilica where you will explore the numerous side chapels with their hidden crypts. You will see Michelangelo’s Pietà.
Michelangelo Buonarroti left us a legacy of his genius in sculpture, painting, architecture and poetry, don’t miss the opportunity to discover more about his interesting life!
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
Do you want to know more about the genius Michelangelo? This visit is perfect do learn about him. Stories, secrets and much more that you’ve never heard before! Bypass the queues with your skip-the-line ticket for an immediate entry to the museum complex. Walk through several of the museums galleries and room; admire the amazing collections. You then work your way towards the stunning Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo’s iconic frescoes; The Last Judgements and the Creation of Adam. The tour proceeds to the Dome with its spectacular mosaics and stucco embellishments. End your tour in St. Peter’s Basilica where you will explore the numerous side chapels with their hidden crypts. You will see Michelangelo’s Pietà.
Michelangelo Buonarroti left us a legacy of his genius in sculpture, painting, architecture and poetry, don’t miss the opportunity to discover more about his interesting life!
Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Meet your guide at the Vatican Museums and ready to enjoy this unique tour. Skip the line at the entrance and proceed on the various ornate galleries and rooms; the Gallery of Maps; the Gallery of Tapestries and into the strobilus court. Learn about the master Michelangelo , creator of the beautiful design for the popes throughout the Renaissance period; your guide can recount stories and secrets about this genius.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
As you walk the galleries you enter the glorious Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo’s painting ceiling frescoes The Last Judgement and therefore the Creation of Adam on one among the chapel’s walls.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Cupola di San Pietro, Piazza san Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Next, the trip to the Dome! Short to attend as you may be there before the standard daily hoards arrive. enclosed within the tour is that the elevator ride to the primary level wherever you find about the dome with its beautiful mosaics and elaborations. From ground level they’re impressive; from up shut you’ll extremely appreciate the mastery that went into making such elaborate work.
Then prepare yourself for the climb up the 281 steps which will take you to the highest of the dome. The guide can tell you what to see for once you reach the top: spectacular views of St. Peter’s Square; the marvelous read on the long, straight avenue that Mussolini bulldozed which ends up in St. Peter’s and therefore the long distance views across the river to the terribly centre of ancient Rome. positively the most effective viewing purpose within the whole of Rome!
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
It is then back once more to ground level for a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica wherever you may explore the various facet chapels with their hidden crypts. You’ll see Michelangelo’s Pietà and your guide will make a case for why this is often the sole work that he signed.
There is still additional to envision although below ground level. You guide can lead you below ground to the pontifical sepulchre wherever, over the centuries, several of the Popes are inhumed.
Duration: 1 hour
