How Do You Avoid The Long Lines At Romes Vatican City?
When visiting Rome there are some things you just have to do. You have to eat pizza, you have to taste the Italian ice cream, and you simply have to visit the Vatican. Unfortunately you can become nauseous when discovering the long lines. The Vatican museums are open from 8:30am-6pm, with the last entrance at 4pm. It’s generally advised to skip the long lines in the morning and come at midday. All the tourists try to be smart and be there early in the morning, but the really smart ones come at 1-2 pm and breeze right in. The price? Tickets cost EUR14. So what’s the Vatican City? Home to Saint Peter’s Basilica, the vast Vatican Museum collection, and Pope Benedict XXVI, the sacred city within a city will take up at least an afternoon of your time. It officially became a state in 1929, and does actually issue its own passports. The agreement with the Italian government, the Lateran Treaty, created the independent city-state, established Roman Catholicism as the official religion of Italy
