At less than 9 o'clock in the morning, the minibus had already sent the Golden Autumn Tour to a street in the northwest corner of Rome...

The straight line distance of this street is less than 200 meters from the Vatican Museum, and vehicles cannot move forward any further.

So, the tour guide Ronaldo asked all members of the tour group to get off and walk to the Vatican Museum.

When I walked up to the front, I saw that there were at least a thousand people at the entrance of the museum.

There is also a team waiting for the visit, with only about 300 people.

"Dear friends, you guys go queue first. I'll buy tickets and give them to you immediately. Remember, don't queues with fewer people, because that place is an import that is booked in advance. Without booking in advance, the "door" guard will not allow you to enter! Also, when you queue, you can visit the appearance of St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica at the same time. Inside St. Peter's Basilica, we won't go in today."

After the tour guide Luo Luo gave the news to everyone, he went to the ticket office alone.

According to Ronaldo's "interview" generation, the members of the Golden Autumn Group immediately flocked forward and lined up behind the team of thousands in an orderly manner.

Taking advantage of the queue, members of the Golden Autumn Group began to look at the Vatican City State, the Vatican Museum, St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square, and the palace buildings of the Pope.

Standing behind the winding team and looking to the right, you can see a magnificent building made of yellow marble!

The entire building is about twenty meters high, completely in the typical medieval church style.

The front of the tall building, which is the main gate of the Vatican Museum, is a large gate corridor supported by tall circular columns.

The main building connected by the ‘door’ corridor is about five stories high below;

On the top of the five-story building, there is a huge vaulted roof in the middle.

On both sides of the huge arched roof, there is a small arched roof, and its size is only one-fifth of the main roof.

I heard from the Chinese tourists in the queue in front that the entire museum was designed according to the rectangular "彩".

If tourists follow the "return" shaped channel, it will take at least six hours!

Listening to their comments, Liping felt secretly worried:

If there were so many times, could the tour group leave Rome today?

However, members of the Golden Autumn Group are visiting the exteriors of buildings such as the museum and the Virgin Mary Cathedral. It seems that no one has the time to take to visit the museum.

Seeing that no one was worried about the visiting time, Liping silently lined up behind the visiting line and continued to visit the appearance of the museum.

Liping appears, connecting the south of the museum's "hui"-shaped building, there is an ancient medieval building with an ancient fragrance.

I heard the Chinese tourists in front of me discussing that it was the "central government" of the Vatican city state, that is, the pope's palace!

Looking south along the palace, the St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica introduced by the tour guide Ronaldo were suddenly caught in Liping's eyes!

St. Peter's Square is an oval square, 350 meters long and 250 meters wide;

The ground is paved with small black square stones; both sides of the square are surrounded by semicircular marble corridors.

The marble circular corridor has about 300 cylinders and more than 100 square columns, arranged in four rows, forming three corridors.

On the platform at the top of each stone pillar in the square, there is a marble statue more than 3 meters high.

Those statues are famous martyrs in Roman Catholic history:

Different expressions and lifelike.

In the center of the square, there is also an obelisk with a high-rise sky.

There is a cross on the tip of the monument, with Jesus nailed to it.

On both sides of the square, there is a beautiful fountain with water "flowers" splashing on one side.

It can be said that the entire St. Peter's Square is harmonious in shape and magnificent!

On the northwest side of St. Peter's Square, another fifth-century building stands St. Peter's Basilica!

On the front of St. Peter's Basilica, there is a spacious 'door' porch.

The ‘door’ corridor is also supported by twelve giant marble columns.

Above the "door" corridor, there are more than a dozen statues of martyrs.

Behind the Kuiwei statue is the center of the entire building.

In the center of the building, a huge spherical roof is built;

Above the spherical roof, a small tower is built;

And above the tower, there is a conical cylinder.

This series of three-dimensional buildings constitutes the most iconic characteristic of St. Peter's Basilica.

While queuing up, the members of the Golden Autumn Group kept watching the outdoor scenes of St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica.

When they followed the tour team and marched nearly 200 meters, the tour guide Ronaldo came with a ticket.

Luo Xiao gave each member a visit ticket and told everyone:

"Dear friends, the Vatican Museum's tickets are continuous tickets. With this ticket, you can visit all the exhibition halls inside. Each ticket is 15 euros.

After hearing this, several people sighed and said:

"For such beautiful buildings and scenery, the ticket to the door is only 15 euros? It's cheap, it's so cheap!"

After walking for about ten minutes behind the visiting team, the Golden Autumn Group finally arrived at the entrance to the Vatican Museum.

What is very interesting is that at the entrance of the museum, you can directly see the Vatican Pope Palace Grand Gate adjacent to the import.

At the entrance of the palace gate, there were several guards standing guard.

The guards dressed completely in the outfit of the medieval Roman guards:

Wear a crested silver ‘color’ steel helmet on his head;

The top of the steel helmet is inlaid with thick, bright red tassels!

The guards were wearing military uniforms made of high-end fabrics. The military uniforms were dyed into three "colors" colors according to the proportion of the human body.

Each guard had a round, fuzzy, silver-gray collar around his neck.

The collar looks like it is made of a fox's tail.

Each guard held a two-meter-long spear in his hands - it was also a weapon used by medieval Roman soldiers.

The guards at the palace gate all had their faces tense, their expressions were very serious, and they were respectfully loyal to their duties.

Looking at the costumes and expressions of the palace guards, the visitors seemed to be infected, and they all restrained their smiles and tightened their faces, as if their thoughts had also traveled to medieval Europe.

While watching the Pope's palace guards "by the way", the members of the Golden Autumn Regiment quickly entered the museum's "gate" as the visiting team progressed.

Inside the museum's big gate, the tour guide Xiao Luo specially found a small venue, gathered members of the Golden Autumn Group together, and told everyone:

"Dear friends, today, the main attraction we visited in Rome is the Vatican Museum!

The total area of ​​the museum is 55,000 square meters!

If you visit according to the layout of the museum and finish all the views, the distance is about six kilometers and takes about six hours.

Today, we don’t have so much time. So after you go in, you can choose the most important and most historically valuable exhibition hall to visit.

Please remember, at 11:00 a.m., we gathered in the square outside the exit.

OK, now, please come with me to get the audio guide.

Please note that the audio guide here is rented, each rent is 7 euros. After the visit, you must return the audio guide to the recycling bin at the exit.

Because before that, the museum has included tourists from seven or eight countries including China, Japan, Russia and other countries on their blacklist. I hope you will not affect the reputation of the country because of personal forgetting!"

After saying that, Luo Luo glanced at the members of the Golden Autumn Group with a particularly serious look.

Seeing that everyone was nodding silently, Luo felt relieved, so he led the Jinqiu Group to a row of tables next to the entrance, and talked to a staff member in foreign language.

The staff member immediately turned around and took out twenty voice guides from behind the table, and handed them over to Ronaldo in a skillful manner;

After Luo took over the tour guide, he distributed it to members of the Golden Autumn Group one by one.

After receiving the tour guide, the Golden Autumn Group followed the bustling crowd and visited the exhibition halls separately.

After both Liping and Meng put on the audio guide, they followed the crowd while listening to the Chinese explanation inside.

They visited the museum's art gallery, Ituria Hall, signature room, gallery, map gallery and Sith's relocation chapel.

During the entire visit, both Liping and Mengdu felt that the atmosphere in the museum was noble, elegant, and solemn.

Moreover, the layout of all exhibition halls shows the magnificence, noble but not vulgarity of the Roman Church.

Of course, in Liping's heart, the most impressive one is the Sistine Chapel!

When Liping and Meng both stepped into the Sistine Chapel, they were immediately shocked by the artistic atmosphere here!

Through the introduction of the audio guide, Liping and Meng both learned:

On the ceiling of the chapel, Michelangelo's paintings are depicted.

The area of ​​this group of oil paintings is 30 square meters.

It consists of 9 central pictures, depicting the main process of God creating the world;

Another masterpiece by Michelangelo is located on the wall on the front of the chapel.

This picture is full of despair and sank of depression!
To be continued...