Rome May 29, 2014
Our day was spent entirely at the Vatican Museum and Basilica. We purchased our ticket on line allowing us to avoid big line. Bus transportation system is good but it is not set up to deliver visitors to the museum instead dropping them off at the basilica, a long walk away. The museum is fabulous with impressive displays of tapestries, large painted maps of Italy, busts and full sculptures of famous and common people of Italy. The ceilings of the long halls are filled with colorful frescos. There are few places to sit so visitors must be prepared to stand up as they pass endless rooms and corridors. Signs hold out promise of the final destination, the Sistine Chapel. Once there everyone spends considerable time taking in the beauty and complexity of the Michelangelo frescos and side panels painted in cooperation with other artist. No one seems to want to leave this large chapel and the guards continue to shush the verbal crowds. After turning in our audio player we took the long walk back to enter the awesome, in size and beauty, the basilica, first passing Michelangelo's Le Pieta. Our feet are tired so we walk to catch a bus back to our hotel for a nap and a local
restaurant for a sea bass dinner and stop for gelato. Observations: The city is quite clean with hardly any
litter nor dogs. Bus system is clean and efficient. Security is hardly present in the museums. The guards man X-ray machines but just wave people through. Pick Pockets are prominent with many people having had a run in with them.
Our day was spent entirely at the Vatican Museum and Basilica. We purchased our ticket on line allowing us to avoid big line. Bus transportation system is good but it is not set up to deliver visitors to the museum instead dropping them off at the basilica, a long walk away. The museum is fabulous with impressive displays of tapestries, large painted maps of Italy, busts and full sculptures of famous and common people of Italy. The ceilings of the long halls are filled with colorful frescos. There are few places to sit so visitors must be prepared to stand up as they pass endless rooms and corridors. Signs hold out promise of the final destination, the Sistine Chapel. Once there everyone spends considerable time taking in the beauty and complexity of the Michelangelo frescos and side panels painted in cooperation with other artist. No one seems to want to leave this large chapel and the guards continue to shush the verbal crowds. After turning in our audio player we took the long walk back to enter the awesome, in size and beauty, the basilica, first passing Michelangelo's Le Pieta. Our feet are tired so we walk to catch a bus back to our hotel for a nap and a local
restaurant for a sea bass dinner and stop for gelato. Observations: The city is quite clean with hardly any
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