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I TESORI DEL VATICANO

Lazio - Rome (RM)

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 The Vatican Museums

In the premises of the Vatican Museums, are arranged the works of painting and sculpture, as well as many other works of human intelligence, gathered over the centuries by the Popes. The Museums also include the outstanding artistic monuments, such as the Sistine Chapel, the Chapel of Beato Angelico, the Rooms and the Loggia of Raphael and the Borgia Apartment. The Gallery is located in a building erected in 1932 on the project of the architect Feltrami, connected to the Palace of the Vatican Museums (the entrance of the Quattro Cancelli) by an elegant portico.In a modern building, which fits in the complex museum, have been placed collections of archeological objects of art and of the character of ethnology, which are the Museums, the Christian, Profane and Missionary-Ethnological museum, were housed in the Lateran Palace. In 1973, he was added to the Museums Collection of Modern Religious Art. In the Historical Museum, which is housed in the Palace of the Lateran, are collected, among other things, memorabilia of the Papal Military corps.The entrance is on Viale Vaticano, near piazza Risorgimento.The Museums are various outbuildings laboratory of restoration of paintings, bronzes, marble, tapestries and other materials stored in the Museums themselves, as well as a diagnostic Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration.The Vatican Museums, despite the numerous disturbances due to wars, destruction and theft, you are trained in a progressive way for successive enlargements, with works of art collected by the popes since the time of the Renaissance: they are still today one of the museum complexes of the world's largest.

The Sistine Chapel

The Sistine Chapel owes its name to its patron, the pope, Sixtus IV della Rovere (1471-1484), who wanted to build a new large environment, the place, where stood the "Cappella Magna", aula fortified in the middle ages, and is intended to accommodate the meetings of the papal court. The latter at the time had about 200 members and was composed of a college of 20 cardinals, representatives of religious orders, and of the great families, of the complex of the singers, a large number of laymen and servants. The construction of the Sistine chapel had to respond also to the needs of the defensive against two dangers looming: the Signoria of Florence, ruled by the Medici family, with whom the pope was in continual tension, and the turks of Mohammed II, who in those years threatened the east coast of Italy. Its construction began in 1475, the year of the Jubilee called by pope Sixtus IV, and ended in 1483 when, on the 15th of August, the Chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Assunta, was inaugurated with solemnity by the pope. The project of the architect Baccio Pontelli reused up to a third of the height of the walls of the middle ages. According to some scholars, the dimensions of the classroom (40,23 m length, 13,40 meters wide and 20,70 meters high) ricalcherebbero the measures of the great temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, destroyed in 70 d.C. by the Romans.
The main entrance of the Chapel, which is on the opposite side of the small inlet that is now the access usual, is preceded by the magnificent Sala Regia, intended for the audiences. Arched windows (arched top) ensure that the illumination is a cover with the barrel vault is separated from the side walls with lunettes and sails triangular. The cantoria on the right side was once the home of the members of the choir, while the stone seat placed on the three sides of the hall, with the exception of that of the altar, was for the papal court. The elegant balustrade of the fifteenth century, surmounted by candelabra divides the environment reserved for the clergy and for the public: it was set back at the end of the Sixteenth century to make the first space larger. The beautiful mosaic pavement, remained today still intact, dating back to the 1400's and was built on the models of the middle ages. Completed in 1481, the architecture, the pope, Sixtus IV called to work in the Chapel, and the famous florentine painters, such as Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli and luca Signorelli, as well as in umbria, such as Perugino and Pinturicchio. They decorated the side walls, divided in three horizontal bands, and marked vertically by elegant pilasters. In the lower part were made of the fresco, faux drapes damask with the insignia of the pope; above them were hung tapestries (some are executed by Raphael and his aid in the second decade of the Sixteenth century, are now in the room dedicated to him in the Vatican Pinacoteca); in the middle range, the most important, were painted scenes of biblical Stories with episodes from the life of Moses and Christ, both conceived of as the liberators of mankind; in the upper one, the height of the windows, were built by Sixtus IV, the portraits of the early popes, placed in niches in monochrome, in order to demonstrate the continuity of his tenure with his predecessors.
The ceiling of the Chapel, as shown in a famous drawing of the Sixteenth century, now in the Uffizi, was finally decorated up to the bezels with golden stars on a blue background to the work of the painter Pier Matteo d'amelia.

Touched then to the nephew of Sixtus IV, the enterprising Giuliano della Rovere, who became pope with the name of Giulio II (1503-1513), to complete the pictorial decorations inside the Chapel. He in the context of the great renewal of the city, and called to Rome Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), an artist already famous in Florence, and to whom he had previously entrusted to other duties, which he accepted, not without some initial controversy, to decorate "fresh". The work was completed in four years of hard work (from 1508 to 1512) and has as its theme the history of mankind in the period preceding the coming of Christ.
The painting of the wall with the "last Judgment" was performed instead by the same artist later: from 1536 to 1541, on commission of pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), who had in turn confirmed the position of the previous pope, Clement VII (1523-1534). The theme represented this time is the Fate inescapable, that it is incumbent upon all men, for whose fate the God is the absolute arbiter.

The Basilica of San Pietro

The demise of the constantinian Basilica was progressive. From the first decision of Nicholas V Parentucelli to enlarge and restore the ancient Basilica, entrusting the task to Rossellino in the second half of the Fifteenth century, the completion of the new building, with the unveiling of the facade (1612), spent a little more than 150 years. A period of time, certainly very long if you consider the years that have passed, but absolutely understandable if one thinks of the immense amount of work and to the continuous changes occurring in the field of design. Study the genesis of the Basilica of San Pietro is, knowing the history of the evolution of thought and art in various historical eras.In the more than one hundred and fifty years necessary to bring to completion the work on the Basilica turns to the direction of the "Fabbrica di San Pietro", the most famous artists of that time: Raffaello Sanzio, who, around 1514 chose to transform the Greek cross plan of the building in the style of bramante into a Latin cross, to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Michelangelo, who, under the pontificate of Paul III, in addition to decide to recover the project of michelangelo for the dome of which he personally is the realization until his death in 1564.In the approximately thirty years that followed, the "Fabbrica di San Pietro" was entrusted with the direction first of Vignola and then of the architects Giacomo Della Porta and Domenico Fontana, to which must be ascribed the merit of having brought to completion in around 1588, the project of michelangelo's dome.The Basilica of St. Peter's, reached the current aspect thanks to the intervention of Carlo Maderno, that he returned to the plant of the basilica Latin cross and realized the scenographic aspect of the façade. The work on the Basilica was completed with the solemn consecration under the pontificate of Urban VIII in 1626, but only between 1656 and 1667, at the behest of Alexander VII, Bernini designed and built the porch and colonnade of Saint Peter's square with at the centre the obelisk of The century.C. Originally located at the center of the spina of the circus of Caligula, where he was martyred St. Peter, was transported to the present location in 1585 by Domenico Fontana for want of pope Sixtus V. The Basilica of San Pietro, can accommodate 20,000 worshippers, is a length of about 190 metres, the width of the three naves, the dome is 58 meters, the nave is high up to the top of the vault 45,50 metres, the dome reaches 136 meters of height up to the cross; the interiors, characterized by huge mosaics, are the treasure chest for some of the most famous works of art in the world, such as Bernini's Canopy and the statue of the Pietà of Michelangelo.

The altar of the Fatherland

L’ Altar of the Fatherland, was built following a decision of the Italian Parliament, to dedicate a national monument to recently deceased sovereign Victor Emanuel II (1878). After publishing two international competitions (1880 and 1882), it was chosen the project presented by Giuseppe Sacconi. The young architect from the marche region, on the model of the great sanctuaries of the classical era, and conceived the designated space as a scenic representation celebrating the heart of imperial Rome, the Italian Risorgimento.The architectural structure of the monument was conceived as an ascending path that ideal through the stairways and terraces, enriched with various sculptural groups and bas-reliefs of the central Altar of the Fatherland, lift itself up to the Temples and side from the grand Portico of columns surmounted by the bronze four-horse chariots, allegories of the Unity of the Homeland and of Freedom. Although they began in 1885, the work proceeded slowly and the project was continually modified. The same material with which it was to be built, the travertine, was replaced with the snow-white botticino marble from brescia. Between 1885 and 1910, the entire area at the foot of the Capitol was affected by the new urban structure of the town which saw the demolition of the existing medieval and renaissance buildings. For a better view of the monument were also moved to the Palazzetto Venezia and the Church of St. Rita.After Sacconi's death, in 1905, the construction works were directed by the architects Gaetano Koch, Manfredo Manfredi and Pio Piacentini.On June 4, 1911, on the occasion of the International Exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III inaugurated the huge gilt-bronze equestrian statue. In 1921, in the crypt designed by Armando Brasini, was buried the body of the Unknown Soldier.Between 1924 and 1927, were placed on the Propylaea, the Quadriga of Unity, CarloFontana, and the Quadriga of Freedom, by Paolo Bartolini. Only in 1935, however, work could be regarded as concluded.

The Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls

The Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls is one of the four papal basilicas of Rome, the second largest after that of St. Peter.The church stands on the spot which tradition identifies as the tomb of the apostle Paul.Here the first christians built a burial chapel that was later transformed into a basilica by Constantine, and consecrated, according to the tradition, in 324 by pope Sylvester I. Already in 385, he began the reconstruction of more extensive forms of the temple, finished in 395 at the time of the emperor Honorius.Become one of the most important stages of the pilgrimage to Rome, in its present form is due to Pasquale Belli, in collaboration with other architects, rebuilt it between 1825 and 1854.

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da Rosalia M. - 07/03/2022, alle 15:39
la guida Marco è una persona fantastica ma la permanenza ai Tesori del Vaticano molto limitata

Avrebbe bisogno di almeno un quattro ore solo all'interno

Grazie


da Daniela P. - 30/09/2021, alle 09:32
Gita ben organizzata. Peccato che per il Pantheon non si sia provveduto alla prenotazione. Guide molto gentili e preparate. Accompagnatrice molto cordiale e disponibile. Forse troppe tappe.


da Vincenzo V. - 30/09/2021, alle 08:40
Tutto ok. Bravi le guida e la tutor Valentina.


da ESTER P. - 30/09/2021, alle 08:28
Siamo stati benissimo, accompagnatrice simpatica e disponibile, pranzo ok, piccola nota negativa il cambiamento di orario per entrare ai musei vaticani. Ritorno a casa, troppo tardi.Mi permetto di suggerire partenze in orari anticipati per avere più possibilità di visitare. Per il resto tutto ok. Grazie


da CARMELA M. - 31/01/2020, alle 11:23
Buongiorno

la visita è stata bellissima, sia l'accompagnatrice Paola che la giuda sono stati eccezionali. Purtroppo chi ha organizzato il tour non ha fatto i conti con la fila che si è dovuta fare perché giorno di apertura gratuita ai musei, inserendo così nel programma anche la visita alla Basilica di San Pietro, cosa impossibile visto la fila interminabile per entrare, creando così malumore nei viaggiatori. Secondo appunto è stata la scelta del ristorante, la cucina è stata non di buona qualità molto distante da piazza san pietro e non segnalato nemmeno su google.

Spero che questa mio commento serva solo per migliorare la programmazione dei prossimi tour


da ALESSANDRA C. - 02/11/2019, alle 18:21
Salve il viaggio è stato ottimo organizzato accompagnatore e guida molto simpatico ma sinceramente hanno una pecca in tutto questo in questo giorno ci hanno fatto correre a piedi per tutto il tour ma correre sul vero senso della parola da non riuscire a stargli dietro . Spero che facciano tesoro dei commenti per la volta successiva.


da liliana d. - 02/11/2019, alle 09:36
Una giornata un po caotica sono stata bene con marco e il gruppo alla prossima grazie


da Mirella C. - 01/11/2019, alle 18:41
Giornata interessantissima e piacevole. I miei complimenti alla preparatissima guida Carmelo . A presto


da Donatella Q. - 01/11/2019, alle 10:48
Marco e Carmelo due guide preoarate


da Daniela F. - 01/11/2019, alle 09:09
Viaggio stupendo. All'inizio scoraggiati dalla lunga fila ai musei Vaticani (il che è anche normale), si è poi entrati prima di quel che credevamo! La guida Carmelo ai musei è stata eccezionale!

Accompagnatore Marco gentile, sempre accorto alle nostre esigenze, ci ha fatto anche da guida al Pantheon e a Piazza Navona... eccezionale. Autista bravissimo. Giudizio ottimo!


da Paolo F. - 01/11/2019, alle 08:01
Esperienza positiva guida professionale. Pranzo migliorabile. Complessivamente piacevole e interesssnte


da francesco b. - 01/11/2019, alle 07:44
Siamo stati benissimo! La cortesia e la competenza di accompagnatore e guida sono state ammirevoli!!!!!!!


da Antonella D. - 01/11/2019, alle 06:39
Una gita bene organizzata. L'accompagnatore Marco molto attento e gentile. La guida Carmelo molto professionale e all'altezza


da Giovanni S. - 04/10/2019, alle 09:14
Tutto ok il gruppo si è trovato a suo agio un grazie alla guida molto preparata e soprattutto comprensibile naturalmente un grazie anche a tutta l organizazzione


da marinella a. - 06/05/2019, alle 08:09
Splendida giornata super organizzata

Grazie a tutti voi per la vostra professionalità messa a nostrea disposizione


da SILVIA M. - 06/05/2019, alle 07:59
Buongiorno.. In merito alla gita dei musei vaticani le guide sono state fantastiche e la giornata piacevole.. Spero di fare altre esperienze con voi.. Grazie


da ALFREDO V. - 02/11/2018, alle 06:31
Bellissimo interno del.museo...rovinato un po' dalla pioggia. Ristorazione buona e accompagnatore Roberto professionale e responsabile...ottima guida dell'autista .



da Luigi C. - 10/02/2018, alle 11:28
una sola parola :OTTIMO ---Grazie a voi ,alla prossima

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