VATICAN CENTER HOTELS NEAR ST PETER'S, SISTINE CHAPEL, VATICAN MUSEUM

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Category: Elegant four star hotel with 100 rooms. The expansive lobby is a favorite meeting place. Within walking distance of the Vatican; three minutes by underground from St. Peter's. Rooms: Twin/king size bed, single sleeper couch, writing desk. In room amenities: Satellite television with premium channels/movies, full bath/shower, minibar, individual heat/air conditioning, in room safe. Amenities: Complimentary breakfast, conference center, bar, sauna, fitness center, parking garage, garden, business center, disabled facilities. Helpful, English-speaking staff. OTHER: Non-smoking rooms available; within a block of bus/metro transportation. Suites are Available. Misc. Within walking distance of the Vatican Museum Special Group Rate Available at all vatican center hotels Price in Euros & includes all taxes**

VATICAN EGYPTIAN COLLECTION

Various inscriptions from various ages, sarcophagi and mummies, Roman statuary (from the 1st and 2nd century A.D.) designed to imitate or interpret the forms and aesthetics of Egyptian statuary, protohistoric and Roman ceramics, cuneiform tablets and mesopotamic seals, assirian bas-reliefs from the palaces of Sargon the IInd.

CHIARAMONTI MUSEUM
It was founded by Pope Pius VII (Chiaramonti) and includes: the Corridoio (Corridor), the Galleria Lapidaria and the Braccio Nuovo (New Side). In the Corridor, divide into 60 sections, is an interminable series of statues, busts, sarcofhagi, reliefs, etc: about 800 Greek-Roman works.

VATICAN MUSEUM OF POPES CLEMENT XIV AND PIUS VI
In the Palazzetto of Belvedere the visitor finds Greek and Roman sculptures like the Apollo Belvedere (a Roman copy from the original Greek sculpture, 130-140 A.D.), the famous group of Laocoön by Agesander, Polydorus and Athanodorus, the statue of Hermes (copied during Hadrian's reign from an original Greek bronze of 4th century B.C.), the colossal statue of Antinous (photo), and moreover the Canova's Cabinet, the Gallery of Statues, the Room of the Animals, etc.

of Greek and Etruscan black figure ceramics.

THE BIGA ROOM OF ST. PETER'S MUSEUM

GALLERY OF THE CANDELABRA

GALLERY OF THE TAPESTRIES
Decorated during the pontificate of Pius VI, the gallery is named after the tapestries which were first exhibited there in 1814.

GALLERY OF THE MAPS
The Gallery is named after the maps painted on the walls in 40 different panels, each devoted to a region, island or particular territory of Italy.

APARTMENT OF ST.PIUS V

SOBIESKI ROOM
Named for the painting which takes up the entire north wall with its depiction of the victory of John III Sobieski, King of Poland, over the Turks outside the walls of Vienna in 1683. The work was painted by Jan Matejko (1883).