The Pope's Place - Rome - Things To Do Reviews

Firstly, the vatican is amazing. So make sure you go.

Secondly, the line for the museum will quite possibly be the longest queue of people you have ever seen in your entire life (it certainly was for me). So get there early, early, early!! Seriously!

It is well worth going to the top of St. Peters too, but the line for this will also be massive. Unfortunately you can't be early for both queues, so basically just resign yourself to having to spend a couple of hours in line at some point during the day.

Thirdly, they can be pretty pedantic about the rules. Some of it is quite ridiculous but do try to respect it. The Sistine Chapel has a bunch of people just constantly saying SHHHHH! It is a bit silly. I mean it's not like a bit of talking is going to ruin the paintings, but it still pissed me off that so many people insisted on chatting. Just shut up and leave your cameras in your bags for a while. It's not that hard.

I think one of the things I enjoyed most was finding bizzare unexpected paintings inside the museum. One small painting I found was of a preist about to crack someone's skull open!