Love the paintings on walls and ceilings and the rooms go on and on.

Vatican Museum and St Peter's Basilica

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May 24th 2014
We started early, ready for a big day around the Vatican. The Metro is very efficient and after walking to Manzone we bought our integrated all day tickets for 6 euros each and hopped on. The metros are built underground, but our line comes out before crossing the Tiber, so we had a good view of the river. We got off at Cipro, the Musei Vaticani station and we were on our way. We walked past the q ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more