Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

The Vatican Museums are considered to be among the best art museums in Italy, if not the entire world. They're packed with works by incredible artists, from Raphael to Salvador Dalí, but the ...

New LED lighting in the Sistine Chapel New LED lighting of Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy - 29 Oct 2014 Credit: AGF s.r.l./REX/Shutterstock "In the future, this will allow us to know ...

Most importantly, we wanted to book a tour that got us inside the museum and Sistine Chapel before anyone else. That was ...

The Sistine Chapel isn't the only place to admire Michelangelo's works. Many tourists feel underwhelmed or disappointed by the popular experience of visiting the Vatican Museums to admire ...

Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates. Marvel at the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel $25 $500+ ...

More than six million people visit the Sistine Chapel each year - making it the third most-visited museum in the world. This puts a strain on the health of the famous frescos. So the Vatican ...

To anyone who has been to the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, this description will not ring quite true. The price for seeing Michelangelo’s Last Judgment and world-renowned ...

There, they marvel at masterpieces including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos, the ancient Greek statue of the Laocoön, and the Roman copy of the Apollo Belvedere. Another of the Vatican ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The ... at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, lets us peek behind the artist ...