Rome, Day 1, Visit to the Vatican

An entryway to the Vatican	Front of the Pinacoteca Vaticana (the Art Gallery)	In front of the Pinacoteca Vaticana (the Art Gallery)	Fontana della Pigna	Fontana della Pigna	Vatican museums - Chiaramonti Museum	Octagonal Court, Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican Museums
Vatican museums - Apollo Belvedere	Hall of the muses, Vatican Museums	Vatican Museums, Pio Clementino Museum, Hall of the muses - Belvedere Torso	Entering the Sala Rotonda (Round Room)	Vatican Museum - Hercules	Sala Rotunda (Round Room)	Vatican Museums - Sarcohagus of Helena
Vatican Museums - Gallery of the Candelabra	Vatican Museums - Dionysus	Vatican Museums - Satyr with Infant Dionysus	Vatican Museums - Bust of Leo XIII above doorway	Vatican Museums - Gallery of Tapestries	Vatican museums - Gallery of Maps	Maps in the Gallery of Maps, Vatican Museums
Ceiling of the Gallery of Maps, Vatican museums	Vatican museums - Gallery of Maps	Resting after the visit to the Sistene Chapel	Entering St. Peters' Basilica	St. Peter's Basilica - a small dome	Michelangelo's Pieta	Inside St. Peter's Baslica - Pope Gregory XIII
The body of Pope John XXIII beneath the Altar of St. Jerome	The Altar in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome	Swiss guards	The front of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome	The Vatican Obelisk as the sun begins to set	The balcony from which the pope addresses people in St. Peter's square	Bell in one corner of facade for St. Peter's basilica
Below the balcony where the pope speaks at St. Peter's Square	Beneath the columns, St. Peter's Square	The Residence of the Pope, The Papal Apartments	St. Peter's Square	St. Peter's Square	St. Peter's Square	St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Square	Night drive from the Vatican to our hotel