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    VATICAN MUSEUMS

    Dec 31, 2020 4 minutes

    VATICAN MUSEUMS

    VIALE VATICANO

    No trip to the Vatican City is complete without visiting the museums. All included in one ticket, along with the Sistine Chapel, you’ll walk along corridors of ancient Roman statues and explore rooms filled to the brim with Renaissance art. There’s a reason it’s visited by over 6 million people every year.

    Founded in 1503, the papal collection on display was started by Pope Julius II, and has been expanded ever since. Clement XIV and Pius VI collected Greek works, while Pius V was a fan of 15th- and 16th-century Flemish tapestries and Medieval ceramics. It

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