Tours In Rome
SISTINE CHAPEL AND MICHELANGELO MASTERPIECES
The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (pontiff from 1471 to 1484) who had the old Cappella Magna restored between 1477 and 1480.
The 15th century decoration of the walls includes: the false drapes, the Stories of Moses (south and entrance walls) and of Christ (north and entrance walls) and the portraits of the Popes (north and south and entrance walls).
It was executed by a team of painters made up initially of Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli, assisted by their respective shops and by some closer assistants among whom Biagio di Antonio, Bartolomeo della Gatta and Luca Signorelli stand out.
On the Ceiling Pier Matteo d'Amelia painted a starry sky. The work on the frescoes began in 1481 and was concluded in 1482. This is also the date of the following works in marble: the screen, the choir stalls (where the choristers took their places), and the pontifical coat of arms over the entrance door.
On 15 August 1483, Sixtus IV consecrated the new chapel dedicating it to Our Lady of the Assumption. Julius II della Rovere (pontiff from 1503 to 1513), nephew of Sixtus IV, decided to partly alter the decoration, entrusting the work in 1508 to Michelangelo Buonarroti, who painted the Ceiling and, on the upper part of the walls, the lunettes. The work was finished in October 1512 and on the Feast of All Saints (1 November), Julius II inaugurated the Sistine Chapel with a solemn Mass.
The nine central panels show the Stories of Genesis, from the Creation to the Fall of man, to the Flood and the subsequent rebirth of mankind with the family of Noah.
cost is 250 euro for 3 hours not standing in line and transportation included.
Source: http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/CSN/CSN_Storia.html
BORGHESE GALLERY AND GIAN LOREMZO BERNINI MASTERPIECES
Bernini was born in Naples to a Florentine family. At the age of seven he accompanied his father Pietro Bernini, a capable Mannerist sculptor himself, to Rome. Here the young prodigy's capabilities were soon noticed by the painter Annibale Carracci and by Pope Paul V, and Bernini could therefore begin work as an independent artist. His first works were inspired by Hellenistic sculpture of ancient Greece and imperial Rome he could study in the new seat.
cost is 250 euro for a 3 hours guided tour including transportation.
COLOSUEM AND ROMAN FORUM
The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum, although the Romans called it more often the Forum Magnum or just the Forum) was the central area around which ancient Rome developed, in which commerce, business, prostitution, cult and the administration of justice took place. Here the communal hearth was located.
Sequences of remains of paving show that sediment eroded from the surrounding hills was already raising the level of the forum in early Republican times. Originally it had been marshy ground, which was drained by the Tarquins with the Cloaca Maxima.
Its final travertine paving, still to be seen, dates from the reign of Augustus.
not standing in line cost 250 euro a 3 hour guided tour including transportation.
CHRISTIAN ROM
Holy cross of gerusalem relics, The HolyStairs, Catacombs,
cost is 250 euro for a 3 hour guided tour including transportation.
DA VINCI CODE TOUR
a tour of 4 hour cost is 390 euro including transportation.
ANGELS AND DEMONS TOUR
a tour of 4 hour 390 euro including transportation.
