Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel

The Vatican Museum is intense. There’s a lot here and we didn’t even try to see it all. The museum is housed in the older living spaces of the popes, so this is also a tour through their palace. And it is grand, it rivals Versailles is scale and opulence. Every wall and ceiling has something, a statue, painting, bust, tapestry.

The tour goes through several rooms painted by Raphael and is of course topped off by the Sistine Chapel.

We listened to a Rick Steves audio tour, which was an hour long and does a great job narrating the highlights.Read more