Italy - Rome - Day 4

The Vatican City

A visit to Rome is not complete without a visit to the Vatican city, the smallest self-governing country on the surface of earth. That's right, this is supposed to be where the Pope lives.


St. Peter's Square from outside of the Vatican City.

We headed for the Vatican City museum at around noon. Bad timing. The sun was directly above our heads plus there was a 1.5 hour line up. The line moved relatively quickly though.

We went straight to the museum which lead to the famous Sistene Chapel.

A beautifully created sculpture.



The museum itself is just as extravagant as the Louvre. It's unfortunate that I am not religious to know enough about the stories that the paintings are telling. This one did make sense. A beautiful painting of the symbolic slaughter of the Seven Sins.



We walked for about half hour before finally reaching the Sistine Chapel. It was smaller than I thought, but then again it was very well decorated. How can it be bad when you give the job to Michelangelo?

After visiting the museum we went outside to the square to catch an amazing view: