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Rome, Vatican City & Naples

Day 5 - Vatican City & Rome

3rd June 2026

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Museum, Sistine Chapel (Vatican City) & Pantheon (Rome)

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An earlyish start to walk the 2 miles to Vatican City in a torrential thunder storm...



Day 1 - London to Rome Day 2 - Rome - City & Giro d'Italia Day 3 - Naples - Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius
Day 4 - Rome - National Day & Villa Borghese Day 5 - Vatican City & Pantheon Day 6 - Naples - Herculaneum & Pizza
Day 7 - Rome - Colosseum, Fora & Trevi Fountain Day 8 - Return Home  



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Entry


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Apparently pine cones were a symbol of fertility, so were a popular addition...

Pine cone 1

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This one gives its name to the whole courtyard...

Pine cone 2

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Sphere within Sphere in the Pine Cone Courtyard...
 
Piazza



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Corridor


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Laocoon and his Sons...
 
Statue


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Huge mask sculpture from Hadrian's Odeon...

Mask

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Grizzly hare and eagle mosaic...

Mosaic

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It was hard to know where to look as everywhere was covered in some form of artwork...

Ceiling

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Homage to the Pantheon, the coffered ceiling of the Sala Rotondo...


 
Sala Rotonda

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Hercules Mastai in the Sala Rotondo...

Statue


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Centrepiece of Athena in the Greek Cross room...
 
Mosaic 2


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Angry clouds still looming over the Pine Cone Courtyard...

Pine cone 3

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Sphere within Sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro...

Sphere within Sphere



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Diana...

Diana 1

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Also Diana...

Diana 2


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Ceiling 2


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Pope Leo XIII
 
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Ceiling of the Map Gallery


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Italy
 
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Raphael Rooms 1


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Raphael Rooms 2
 
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Raphael Rooms 3


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Raphael Rooms 4
 
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Entry to the Sistine Chapel where photography is forbidden...
 
Entry to Sistine Chapel


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Pantheon

Icon...

Pantheon 1
 
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Dome 1


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Dome 2
 
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Looking out 1


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Looking out 2
 
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Next - Day 6 - Part 1 - Naples - Herculaneum

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Day 1 - London to Rome Day 2 - Rome - City & Giro d'Italia Day 3 - Naples - Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius
Day 4 - Rome - National Day & Villa Borghese Day 5 - Vatican City & Pantheon Day 6 - Naples - Herculaneum & Pizza
Day 7 - Rome - Colosseum, Fora & Trevi Fountain Day 8 - Return Home