Bed Breakfast Rome - Attractions : A Few Steps away from the Best Vatican Hotel…The Basilica of St. Peter and the Michelangelo’s Dome

Once arrived to the fascinating “eternal city” with its attractive and suggestive monuments, you’ll be entranced by an enormous quantity of work of art, and you’ll smell the history in every corner. The St. Peter’s Basilica is few meters far from the Bed Breakfast in Rome Best Vatican. In the marvellous setting of the sensational square, with the Bernini columned, is situated the biggest Christianity Church, dominated by the magnificent Michelangelo’s dome. The making of the Basilica goes through by the whole XVI century by Michelangelo, Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana. The Basilica rises on the basement of an early Christian Church, legend has it that it was built over the Apostle tomb.

Every year, more than one million persons come from each continent to visit the St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Palaces; they represent an artistic and monumental centre unique in the world. You absolutely must visit the renowned Vatican Museums.

Peter died just on the Vatican hill as martyr during the first persecution against the Christians ordered by Nerone. In the same place, at the end of the persecution, the faithful built the Basilica.

B&b Rome - To visit: a few steps by the B&B Best Vacation…the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel

The Vatican Museums entrance is a few steps by the B&B in Rome Breakfast Best Vatican, that, since the beginning of 2000 welcome the visitors with a new large entrance where you can find services ( security control, cloakroom, information offices, guided tour, tickets, change, bookshops, nursery, first aid) that offer a comfortable tour and a first orientation on your way. The building is a two floors plus one, which hosts exhibitions and congresses. From the second floor, a big helical flight with an inclined plane, brings the visitor to the show floors through the “Cortile delle Corazze”, expressly covered by a shell of glass and metal.

In his inaugural speech, The Pope John Paul II defined the new shell “as the entrance that introduce to that temple of art and culture represented by the Vatican Museums, that by a cultural point of view, are one of the most revealing doors of the Holy See opened to the world”.

The first unit of the Vatican Museums was the collecting of sculptures created by Pope Julius II (1503-1513), but actually the Museums and the Pontifician Galleries saw their origin thanks to the Pope Clement XIV (1769-1774) and the Pope Pius VI, as artistic collection, ordered in proper buildings accessible to the public.

The Vatican Museums include: the Etruscan Museum, the Egyptian Museum, the Tapestry Gallery, the Vatican Picture Gallery, and many other famous areas, but probably the most famous is the Sistine Chapel, named by his founding the Pope Sisto IV (1471-1484).

The Sistine Chapel paintings celebrate the Virgin’s triumph, whose maternity was disclaimed by the protestant heresy.

The deed was directed by Cesare Guerra and Giovanni Nebbia, but many were the artist that worked in the Sistine.