We arrived before the museum opened, so joined the end of the queue.
We were about half way down the wall; before it started moving (when
the museum opened) the queue snaked around the wall at the far end of
this image.
We arrived before the museum opened, so joined the end of the queue.
We were about half way down the wall; before it started moving (when
the museum opened) the queue snaked around the wall at the far end of
this image.
And the queue snakes on up towards the museum entrance, which is
located just underneath the tower on the wall.
The experience of handling large crowds clearly helps the Museum
deal expeditiously with the volume of visitors, and we really
had no major delays anywhere on our passage through the Museum
and Sistine Chapel.
One of the side streets we passed while shuffling towards the
museum entrance. It seems that apartments are the standard
living arrangement, unlike Australia and the USA, where the
suburban home rules.
Michelangelo's magnificent dome of St. Peter's Basilica, as
seen from the Museum entrance area.
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