Vatican Museums entrance tickets: how to skip the line

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stanze raffaello | musei vaticani

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VATICAN MUSEUMS ENTRANCE TICKETS: HOW TO SKIP THE LINE

Booking the entrance tickets to the Vatican Museums is essential if you want to make the most of your time to visit the Museums.
The Vatican Museums are huge, full of artworks and it’s hard to visit them, and if you waste your energy to queue, when you enter you’ll be already tired, and you will not appreciate properly the marvels they house, for example the Sistine Chapel.

Those who book their entrance tickets online, instead, can go immediately to the ticket office, where they will replace the reservation they have printed at home with the real entrance tickets, without waiting in line.
In this post how to skip the line !

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Michelangelo’s David: who is and where it is

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Michelangelo | David | Firenze

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MICHELANGELO’S DAVID: WHERE IT IS AND WHO THE HERO REPRESENTED IS

Michelangelo’s David is one of the early works by the great Florentine artist, who was only 26 years old when he started working on it, but he was already famous for his unique talent.
The work was commissioned by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence in 1501, in order to place it along the roofline of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence Cathedral).

Michelangelo’s David was a real challenge for the artist, who began working on a block of marble that other artists before him had tried to carve, but the block had a lot of problems because the material was fragile.

READ ALSO: What to do in Florence, an itinerary.

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Jack Jano. Law of Superposition

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Jack Jano | arte Venezia

JACK JANO. LAW OF SUPERPOSITION IN VENICE

During my visit to the Venice Biennale I discovered Jack Jano.
In addition to several events and 4 good reasons to go to the Venice Biennale 2017, walking around the city and finding some exhibitions, maybe small but very interesting, has never been so fun.

While I was wandering, I found the exhibition area of One Contemporary Art displaying works by Jack Jano, artist born in Morocco in 1949, who wanted to be an actor, but the vicissitudes of life led him to dedicate himself to art, or maybe it was art that found him.

READ ALSO: Visiting the Venice Biennale, 5 things to know.

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