The Vatican Museums are one of the greatest collections of artworks (statues, paintings, mosaics, sculptures, vases, precious objects) mainly from the greek-roman classical era and the Renaissance.
The route includes several galleries and ends with the amazing paintings by Michelangelo and the major italian painters like Perugino and Botticelli in the Sistine Chapel. The closeby amazing Basilica of Saint Peter, the biggest Christian Church in the world, is not only the very place where the most important apostle of Jesus was buried but also a place of Art, with lots of mosaics and the most beautiful sculpture by Michelangelo: “La Pietà”.
Except for the Pantheon, which is a majestic ancient pagan temple which has been standing in Rome downtown since 125 after Christ, the other roman highlights such as the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and Navona Square unveil the story of Rome throughout the 15, 16 and 17 hundreds through the elegance of the architecture and the names of the historical characters who influenced and inspired such great projects! In the Baroque Rome the glory of the ancient Imperial Rome and that of the Popes are perfectly interwined.