Vatican Museums

Location

Rome
Italy
41° 54' 23.9436" N, 12° 27' 12.6252" E
IT
General info: 

Vatican Museums are a part of Pope’s official residence, the Papal Palace. With more than 1,400 rooms, the Vatican Museums are one of the most important cultural institutions in the world. Works of art from all over the world are parts of a magnificent collection of Museo Pio-Clementino, while the biggest collection of items from Italian history is in the collection of the Pinacoteca Vaticana.

Museo Chiaramonti is worth mentioning as it contains several ancient works of arts that influenced famous artists throughout the history. A world famous marble sculpture of Roman Emperor Augustus is housed here. It was made in the 1st century AD, but was discovered in the mid-18th century and since has become the most famous sculpture of the founder of the Roman Empire.

Getting there: 

The Vaticani Museums are located in the Vatican City and to get there from the center of Rome, use metro Ottaviano statain.

Costs: 

The entrance fee to the Vatican Museums is 16€.

Interesting places nearby

Thanks to the high snow-safety, the slopes of the ski resort Bergeralm are for use from the end of November to the beginning of April.

The Steinberg area offers numerous activities in a unique winter area in a wide, fluffy high-plateau surrounded from amazing mountains.

Santa Caterina is a small, traditional village sitting at the heart of the vast Stelvio National Park, the largest protected natural reserve in Italy.

Sappada Dolomites of Veneto, near the border on Austria, Veneto and Friuli has winter facilities which have elevated Sappada to a primary role in the national tourist field.

The sunny and spacious skiing-area Sarn-Heinzenberg is located between 1300 metres and 2160 metres highness in the heart of Graubuenden. Here you find mostly moderate and easy slopes.

Sauze d'Oulx, pronounced Sow-zee-doo was one of the most successful Italian ski resorts on the 1970s and '80s, expanding rapidly. Located on a high sunny 'balcony' in the Susa Valley, the resort is surrounded by larch forest above.