What an amazing place packed with so much history and artefacts. This is an absolute must see when I Rome. The place is huge with plenty to see. It was out of season so the crowds were not as bad as they are in peak season, so early November was a really great time to visit. The…
Buy a ticket in advance online, getting to the museum late morning or after lunch, can be a shorter way, better to decide how long you will spend here, it's easy to collapse from museum fatigue; not possible to see every thing; classical statury, Etruscian relics, Renaissance…
What a view, lucky enought that there was not many people here when we visited. The staircase is a masterpiece in itself and it a wonderful entrance to the vatican museem. We were very lucky that the escalator was broken when we arrived and we had to walk up the rotating…
Donato Bramante designed a double helix staircase in 1505, but this version was designed and built in 1932. People can ascend and descend without meeting each other. It is interesting architecture
Quite honestly it was gorgeous but way too many crowds and we weren’t even there on peak season! Too busy to be enjoyed properly, shame.