Based by the Pope Julius II at the beginning of the 16th century and increased by consecutive pontiffs, the Vatican Museums have one of the most excellent collections of works of art in the world. Applications which are shown along about 7 km of halls and corridors, range from the Egyptian mummies and Etruscan products from bronze to ancient crises, old masters and modern pictures. Highlights include a fascinating collection classical, sculptural in Museo Pío-Clementino, the suite decorated with frescos Raphael and the Michelangelo-painted Sistine Chapel.

Housing the museums is generously decorated halls and galleries of the Palace Apostolico Vaticano. This extensive 5.5-hectare complex consists of two palaces - the original Vatican palace (closer in Saint-Petter) and the 15th age of Palazzetto di Belvedere - attached by two long galleries. On an internal part three courtyards: Cortile della Pigna, Cortile della Biblioteca and, on the South, Cortile del Belvedere. You will never cover all this in one day therefore, it will pay to be perfect.

Check online for a set of available tours, among them some which include gardens of Vatican or Kastel-Gandolfo. Avoid what you can be brutal lines for the museum, buying your ticket in advance online. Print out the voucher and exchange it in for the ticket in the arranged time in an entrance atrium.

In general exhibitions aren't well marked therefore consider hiring of the audioguide (€8) or purchase of the Guide on the Vatican Museums and the City (€13).

The museums are well equipped for visitors with limited opportunities, with the offered routes, elevators and especially adjusted toilets. Wheelchairs are available free of charge from Special a reception of Permissions in a lobby and can be reserved, having emailed accoglienza.musei@scv.va. Parents with kids can take baby carriages in the museums.

Often left visitors, but full of the main works, the papal art gallery contains the latest work of Raphael, La Trasfigurazione (Transformation; 1517-20) and also Giotto, Fra Andzheliko, Filippo Lippi, Perugino, Titian, Giovanny Bellini, Guido Rennie, Guyertsino, Pietro da Cortona, Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci's pictures, whose, pursuing San Girolamo the repenting Nel of deserto (the St. Jerome Praying in the Wild area; since 1480-82), never I came to an end.

Museo Chiaramonti - effectively long corridor which runs on East side of the Palace of the Belvedere. Its walls are leveled with thousands of statues and busts presenting everything from immortal gods to playful cherubs and ugly Roman patricians. About the end of the hall, away to the right, Nuovo's Braccio (New Wing) which contains the known statue of Neil as the inclined god rehashed by 16 babies.

This fine museum supports some Vatican Museums, the finest classical sculptural, including an incomparable Belvedere of Apollo and the 1st age of Laocoön, both in Cortile Ottagono (Octagonal Courtyard). Before you enter the courtyard, take some time to admire the 1st age of Apoxyomenos, one of the earliest known sculptures to represent number the raised hand.

On the left, as you enter the courtyard, Apollo's Belvedere - the Roman copy of the 2nd age of the Greek bronze of the 4th century BC. Beautifully distributed representation of god of the sun Apollo, it considered one of excellent masterpieces of a classical sculpture. Nearby, Laocoön represents the brawny Trojan priest and his two sons in mortal fight against two sea serpents.

Back in the degli Animali Hall it is filled by the modeled beings and some magnificent mosaics of the 4th century. Advance, you come in the Hall Dell Myuz, concentrated on the Belvedere of the Trunk, other of the museum has to - to see. A fragment of a muscular Greek sculpture of the 1st century BC, it was in Campo of Fiori's dea and was used by Michelangelo as model for his ignudi (the man - naked figures) in the Sistine Chapel.

The next room, Rotonda Halls, contains many enormous statues, including gilded bronze of Ercole (Ercole) and a graceful mosaic of the floor. The huge pool in the center of number was found in Domus Aurea of Nero and made of the only part of a red stone of porphyry.

The based Gregory XVI in 1839, this museum contains the parts taken from Egypt in the Roman times. Fascinating exhibitions include the fragmented Ramesses II's statue on his throne, brightly painted sarcophagi which are dated approximately of 1000 to N э and terrible mother.

At the beginning of the 18th century Simonetti Museo Gregoriano Etrusco's ladder contains the artifacts which are dug out in Etruscan graves northern by Lazio and also an excellent collection of vases and the Roman objects of old times. Especially interesting Marte di Todi (Mars Todi), black bronze of the soldier who is dated from the last 5th century BC located in Number III.

The last from three galleries on the top floor - others two - Galleria dei Candelabri (Gallery of the Candelabrum) and degli Arazzi Gallery (Tapestry gallery) - this 120m-long corridor is hung up with 40 16th centuries topographic maps of Italy.

This four Chambers decorated with frescos, being exposed to partial restoration now, were a part of private apartments of the Pope Julius II. Raphael drew Stanza della Segnatura (1508-11) and Stanza d’Eliodoro (1512-14) while the Stanza of dell'Incendio (1514-17) and Sala di Costantino (1517-24) were decorated by students after its projects.

The first number to which you come is Sala di Costantino which differs in the huge fresco representing Konstantina Maxentius's defeat in battle Milvien Bridge.

Stanza d’Eliodoro which was used for private audiences prevails a name from Cacciata d’Eliodoro (Exile of Heliodorus from the Temple), the allegorical work reflecting policy of the Pope Julius II of coercion of foreign powers from Church lands. From its right side of Messa di Bolsena from it (Bolsena's Mass) shows to Julius doing justice to a remnant of a miracle of the 13th century in the city of the coast of the Lake Bolsena. Then minus Incontro di Leone Magno Attila (Vstrecha Leo Velikoye s Attiloy) Raphael and his school and, on the fourth wall, Liberazione di San Pietro (Saint-Petter's Release), the excellent work illustrating willful ability of Raphael to represent light.

Stanza della Segnatura, Julius's research and library, was the first number which was drawn by Raphael, and it here that you will find his excellent masterpiece, La Scuola di Atene (School of Athens), differing in the philosophers and scientists who are brought together around Platon and Aristotle. The sitting figure before steps as believe, is Michelangelo while Platon's figure as speak, is Leonardo da Vinci's portrait, and Euclid (the bald person bending), Bramante is. Raphael also included a self-portrait in the right bottom corner - it - the second figure on the right.

The most known work in Stanza dell’Incendio di Borgo - to Incendio di Borgo (Fire in Borgo) which represents the Pope Leo IV extinguishing fire, doing a sign of the cross. The ceiling was painted by Raphael, Perudzhino's owner.

The house to two of the most famous works of art in the world - frescos of a ceiling of Michelangelo (1508-12) and his Giudizio Universale (The Last Judgement; 1536-41) - The Sistine Chapel - one place which all want to see and in intense day you could divide its maximum from 2000 people.

The design of a ceiling of Michelangelo which best of all is considered from a main entrance of a chapel in the Far East wall covers all 800 sq. surfaces of meter. With the painted architectural features and a throw of colourful bible signs, it is concentrated on nine groups representing stories from the Genesis.

As you raise eyes from east wall, the first group - Intoxication of Noah accompanied with the Flood and the Victim Noah. Then, the Original sin and Exile from Sadah of Paradise considerably represent Adam and Eve sent, packing things after acceptance of a forbidden fruit from the Satan presented by a snake with a body of the woman who is reeled up around a tree. Creation of the Eve then is followed by Adam's Creation. This, one of the most known images in the Western art, points a finger to the bearded God who is pointing a finger his Adam thus bringing him round. End of the sequence is Division of Earth from the Sea; Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants; and Division Sveta from Darkness, differing in the God inspiring fear who is stretched to concern the sun. Set around the central groups - 20 sporty men - the naked figures known as ignudi.

On the contrary, on the western wall hypnotic Giudizio Universale of Michelangelo, showing to Christ - in the center about top - to pronounce a sentence heart-to-heart of the dead as they are torn off from the graves to face it. Saved reach not to go to bed in paradise (in the top right corner), damned send down to face demons in hell (in the right lower).

About the basis, on the right, you will see the person with ears of a donkey and the snake who is wrapped up around it. It is Biaggio de Sezena, the papal compere who was an ardent critic of structure Michelangelo. Other celebrity - St Bartholomew, only below Christ, holding his own skin which skin. The face in skin as speak, is Michelangelo's self-portrait, his painful look reflecting the tortured belief of the artist.

Chapel walls also have excellent frescos. Painted in 1481-82 by crack team of artists of Renaissance, including Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Pinturicchio, Perudzhino and Luka Sinyorelli, they represent events in Moisey's lives (to the left consideration of Giudizio Universale) and Cristo (to the right). Highlights include Botticelli Cristo and Peredachu Perudzhino Klyuchey's Temptations.

And also providing a show-window for invaluable art, the Sistine Chapel also performs important religious function as the place where the conclave meets to elect the new Pope.