Today I took a tour of the Vatican City.
I decided to do a guided tour, because I don't know much about the works of Raffaello or Michelangelo, and even less about what makes a good tapestry, which is a lot of what I saw today.
We got to go through the Vatican Museum which is mostly the art collections of past popes, and commissioned arts of famous painters, sculptors and weavers. It was incredible.
After the museum, we got to see the Sistine Chapel, which blew me away. I couldn't take any photos inside, but the roof... just wow.
Finally, we went to St Peter's Basilica. I didn't realise that it is technically a cemetery, with 8 of the past popes who have since become saints, canonized, either on display, mummified, or in coffins. The real standout was the glass murals, which from afar looked like paintings, but up close, were huge glass jigsaws.
Tomorrow, the Colosseum xx