Tours to Italy

The Vatican Museum or Musee Vaticani is one of largest museum complex in the world, located inside the grand and magnificent Vatican Palace. The Vatican Museum was founded by the Pope Julius II the 16th century in the Vatican City. Today, they are counted amongst greatest art and sculpture museums in the world, displaying an extraordinary collection of arts and artifacts of the Roman Catholic Church. In addition, the walls of the Vatican Palace have beautiful paintings and frescos from renowned Renaissance artists such as Fra Angelico, Perugino, Botticelli, Signorelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giulio Romano, Giorgio Vasari and Taddeo Zuccari and host of others.

The Vatican Museums comprised of 12 large complexes with over 1, 300 rooms, making it one of the largest museum complexes in the world. It's not possible to explore all the museums and their fascinating collection of arts and artifacts on a single tour.

However, a guided tour of Vatican Museums can help you discover the most important museums and their amazing collections of art works.

Other must see attractions in the Vatican Palace complex include the beautiful Sistine Chapel, the Stanze della Segnatura, Rooms of Rafael, and the Belvedere Torso. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. On your visit to Vatican Museums, you will see a wide variety of art works, including paintings, frescos, tapestries, sculptures, and painted galleries of maps showing all of Italy, dating as far back as 1580 AD. Tours to Vatican Museums are must for any serious art buff, or for those interested in discovering the rich cultural heritage of Italy.

Sightseeing in Italy

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