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Vatican City: The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel

Vatican City: The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel

Tauck arranged for our group to visit the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel after hours.  This had the great advantage of not needing to deal with huge crowds, estimated at 25,000 people per day.  The pictures below are ones I took in the Vatican Museums.  The first is the ceiling in the Gallery of Maps.  The ceiling has paintings depicting the history of the Catholic Church and the lives of saints. The next two pictures are paintings found in…

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Vatican City: St. Peter’s Basilica

Vatican City: St. Peter’s Basilica

We traveled with Tauck on their Sicily, the Amalfi Coast and Rome Southbound tour in June of 2018. Since we opted for the southbound tour, we flew into Rome and arrived a day early. High on our list was seeing St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel.  These are all part of the Vatican City, a city state established in 1929 with an agreement between the Holy See and the government of Italy called the Lateran Pacts. …

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