From our fourth day in Rome.
Our plan was to visit St Peter’s Basilica after the Pope’s blessings but until the crowd dispersed we went to have a bite at a close-by snack-bar. When we returned to the Basilica the queue to enter was so long that we gave up and decided to walk to Palazzo Venezia and visit its museum. We took this decision because the entrance was included in the ticket we bought to enter Fort Saint Angelo. We thought it was to be something on a small scale but how mistaken we were.
This is one of the many beautiful palaces in Rome. It is situated in Piazza Venezia near the Altare della Patria; also refered to as the Wedding Cake. It is huge and the museum is on the first floor. The two pictures on the left in this collage are of one of the rooms; you can admire the floor tiling. The two on the right are of another room and we had not yet reached walk through hall after hall for around 100 metres to see the exhibits. The marble columns and other carvings on the walls which look so real and beautiful are just paintings on the walls.
Thank you very much for your views, comments and fav's - always appreciated.
What fantastic floors and ceilings! It is always worth both looking up and looking down in such glorious places.
Thank you for your encouraging words yesterday, much appreciated.
Well we paid £52 each to go on a tour of the Vatican. 3 hours long it was very tiring & lots of long corridors filled with so much stuff. All fabulous but I would have preferred to skip some bits & stay longer in other places. The Sistine Chapel & of course the end icing on the cake St Peters was fab. We learnt lots. Glad we did it but wouldn’t do it again. You went to places I haven’t heard of. Interesting.....
Thank you for your encouraging words yesterday, much appreciated.
Ian
(Wish we did, but lessons from history are soon forgotten.)