A coffee table book about the Vatican that drips with luxury and power.
A coffee table book about the Vatican that drips with luxury and power.
Easter season is one of the best times to visit Rome. Here's how you can plan your visit to Rome and Vatican during Holy Week.
READ MORE +If you are visiting Rome, you cannot afford to miss Vatican City, the world's smallest country and home to the Pope. Here you will find the most important church in Christendom, St. Peter's Basilica, as well as some of the world's most significant artistic treasures, including the Sistine Chapel. ...
READ MORE +Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Here's how to get tickets and prepare for Midnight Mass.
READ MORE +Only 37 when he died in 1520, Raphael was one of the most influential artists of his day.
READ MORE +Get to know the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Baroque artist whose works are some of the most famous pieces of art in Rome.
READ MORE +See Rome and Vatican City from a new perspective with a tour of St. Peter's dome.
READ MORE +Leonardo da Vinci created many paintings, sketches, and engineering projects in his lifetime. Here's where to find them in Italy.
READ MORE +Michelangelo Buonarotti is most associated with Rome because of his masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel. But his work is all over the capital and it is well worth the effort to seek it out.
READ MORE +How do you spend one year in Italy? Here's a month-by-month, personal account of my first year living and traveling in Italy.
READ MORE +While hundreds wait in lines in the harsh sun to get into Saint Peter's, the Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, also known as the Cathedral of Rome, is practically empty. San Giovanni is the oldest and largest papal basilica in Rome, although it has gone through many reconstructions over ...
READ MORE +The Vatican Museums welcome up to 25,000 visitors per day. Is it time for them to limit the crowds?
READ MORE +Each day, as many as 20,000 visitors pay up to €16 per person to enter the Vatican Museums, the highlight of which is the Sistine Chapel. This coming weekend, reports Crux, approximately 40 fans of German automaker Porsche will get to pay up to €5,000 each to take a private tour of the Vatican, ...
READ MORE +It's getting ever more difficult to get into the Vatican Museums. The museums, Musei Vaticani in Italian, are home to some of the world's most precious and recognizable Western art including Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican recently raised prices for a ...
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