Before 9 a.m., the minibus had already delivered the golden autumn group to a street in the northwest corner of the city of Rome.

The street is less than two hundred meters away from the Vatican Museums in a straight line, and vehicles cannot go any further.

So, the tour guide Xiao Luo asked all the members of the tour group to get off the bus and walked to the Vatican Museums.

When I walked to the front and looked, I saw a sea of people at the gate of the museum, a queue waiting to visit, and a long queue at the entrance, at least a thousand people!

There is also a queue waiting for the visit, which is only about 300 people.

"Friends, you go to the queue first. I'll give it to you as soon as I go buy the tickets. Remember, don't line up for a small queue, because it's an entrance with a reservation in advance. Without an appointment in advance, the doorman will not let you in! Also, when you are queuing, you can visit the exterior of St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica at the same time. Inside St. Peter's Basilica, we won't go in today. ”

After the tour guide Xiao Luo explained to everyone, he went to the ticket office alone.

According to Xiao Luo's explanation, the members of the Golden Autumn Regiment immediately swarmed forward and lined up behind the team of thousands of people in an orderly manner.

Taking advantage of the queue, the members of the Golden Autumn Group began to look at the Vatican City State, the Vatican Museums, St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square, and the Papal Palace.

Standing at the back of the winding procession, you can see a magnificent building made of yellow marble!

The whole building is about 20 meters high and is completely typical of medieval churches.

The façade of the tall building, the main entrance of the Vatican Museums, is a large porch supported by tall round columns.

The main building connected by the portico is about five stories high below;

On top of the five-storey building, in the center is a massive vaulted roof.

On each side of the huge vaulted roof, there is a small vaulted roof, which is only one-fifth the size of the main roof.

According to the Chinese tourists in the front row, the entire museum is designed according to the rectangular character "Hui".

If you follow the "Hui" shaped passage, it will take at least six hours!

Listening to their discussions, Liping was secretly worried:

If it had taken so long, would the tour group still be able to leave Rome today?

However, the members of the Golden Autumn Troupe are all looking at the exterior of the museum and the Cathedral of Santa Maria Maria, as if no one is bothered to think about how much time it takes to visit the museum.

Seeing that no one was worried about the visiting time, Liping silently lined up at the back of the visiting line and continued to visit the museum.

Liping discovers that to the south of the "Hui" shaped building connecting the museum, there is an antique medieval building.

I heard the Chinese tourists in front of me say that it is the "central government" of the Vatican City State, that is, the palace of the Pope!

Looking further south along the palace, St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica, which were introduced by the tour guide Xiao Luo earlier, came into Liping's eyes!

St. Peter's Square is an oval-shaped square with a length of 350 meters and a width of 250 meters;

The floor is paved entirely with small black ashlars; The two sides of the square are all surrounded by semicircular marble galleries.

The marble round gallery has about 300 columns, and more than 100 square columns, arranged in four columns, forming three corridors.

On the platform at the top of each stone pillar in the square, there is a marble statue more than 3 meters high.

Those statues are famous martyrs in the history of Roman Catholicism:

The expressions are different and lifelike.

In the center of the square, there is also an obelisk high in the sky.

There is a cross on the tip of the tablet with Jesus nailed to it.

On both sides of the square, there is also a beautiful fountain with a splash of water on one side.

It can be said that the whole St. Peter's Square is harmonious and magnificent!

On the northwest side of St. Peter's Square, there stands another building from the 5th century AD – St. Peter's Basilica!

The façade of St. Peter's Basilica has a large portico.

The portico is also supported by twelve massive marble columns.

Above the portico stands more than a dozen statues of the martyr.

Behind the statue is the center of the building.

In the center of the building, there is a large spherical roof;

Above the spherical roof, a small tower is built;

And above the tower, a conical cylinder rises.

This series of three-dimensional buildings constitutes the most iconic feature of St. Peter's Basilica.

The members of the Golden Autumn Regiment lined up and watched the exterior of St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica non-stop.

When they followed the visiting team and walked forward for nearly 200 meters, the tour guide Xiao Luo came with a visit ticket.

Xiao Luo gave each member a visit ticket, and then told everyone:

"Dear friends, the ticket for the visit to the Vatican Museums is a combo ticket, with which you can visit all the pavilions inside. Each ticket price is 1.5 euros.

After hearing this, several members of the Golden Autumn Troupe sighed:

"Such beautiful buildings and scenery for only 15 euros? It's cheap, it's so cheap! ”

After about ten minutes of marching behind the visiting procession, the Golden Autumn group finally arrived at the entrance of the Vatican Museums.

Interestingly, at the entrance of the museum, you can see the gates of the Vatican Papal Court adjacent to the entrance.

At the gate of the palace, there were several guards standing guard.

The dress of the guards, completely maintaining the attire of the medieval Roman guards:

wears a crested silver steel helmet on his head;

The top of the steel helmet is inlaid with thick, bright red tassels!

The guards wore military uniforms made of high-grade fabrics, and the uniforms were dyed in red, yellow, and blue colors according to the proportions of the human body.

Around the neck of each guard was a round, shaggy, silver-gray collar.

The collar looks like it's made of a fox's tail.

In the hands of each guard, a two-meter-long spear was clutched, a weapon used by Roman soldiers in the Middle Ages.

The guards at the gate of the palace were all with tense faces and very serious expressions, and they were respectfully and faithfully devoted to their duties.

Looking at the costumes and demeanor of the palace guards, the visitors seemed to be infected, and they also restrained their smiles one by one, and their faces tightened, as if their thoughts had also traveled to medieval Europe.

While "passing" to see the papal court guards, the members of the Golden Autumn Regiment quickly entered the museum gate as the tour progressed.

Inside the gate of the museum, the tour guide Xiao Luo deliberately found a small venue, gathered the members of the Golden Autumn Troupe together, and told everyone:

"Dear friends, the main attraction we visit in Rome today is the Vatican Museums!

The total area of the museum is 55,000 square meters!

If you visit the museum layout and see it all, the distance is about six kilometers and the time is about six hours.

Today, we don't have that much time. Therefore, after entering, you can choose the most important and historical exhibition hall to visit.

Please remember, at 11 a.m., we will meet in the square outside the exit.

Okay, now, please follow me to get the audio guide.

Please note that the audio guides are rented here for seven euros each. At the end of the tour, be sure to return the audio guide to the recycling bin at the exit.

Because before that, the museum had already blacklisted visitors from seven or eight countries, including China, Japan, and Russia. I hope that you will not affect the reputation of the country because of personal forgetting! ”

After finishing speaking, Xiao Luo also glanced at the members of the Golden Autumn Regiment very seriously.

Seeing that everyone was nodding silently, Xiao Luo felt relieved, so he led Jin Qiutuan to a row of tables next to the entrance, and talked to a staff member in a foreign language.

The staff member immediately turned around and took out twenty audio guides from behind the table, and handed them to Xiao Luo skillfully;

After Xiao Luo took the tour guide, he distributed them to the members of the Golden Autumn Regiment one by one.

After receiving the tour guide, the Golden Autumn Group followed the bustling crowd and went to each exhibition hall separately.

After Liping and Mengdu put on the audio guide, they followed the crowd while listening to the Chinese explanation inside.

They visited the museum's art gallery, the Atulian Room, the signature room, the gallery, the Gallery of Maps, and the Chapel of Sith.

During the whole visit, both Liping and Mengdu felt that the atmosphere in the museum was noble, elegant, and solemn.

Moreover, the layout of all the exhibition halls shows the magnificence of the Roman Church, which is noble and extraordinary.

Of course, in Liping's heart, the most impressive thing is the Sistine Chapel!

When Liping and Mengdu stepped into the Sistine Chapel, they were immediately shocked by the super artistic atmosphere here!

Through the introduction of the audio guide, Liping and Mengjing both learned:

On the ceiling of the chapel is a series of paintings by Michelangelo's Book of Genesis.

The area of this group of oil paintings is 300 square meters.

It consists of 9 central images depicting the main processes of God's creation of the world;

Another of Michelangelo's masterpieces, The Last Judgment, is located on the wall of the front of the chapel.

This picture is full of despair and gloom!

The picture depicts the end of the world, when Christ gathers all the nations of the world to explain how to distinguish between beauty and ugliness, good and evil.

Michelangelo expressed his love and hatred through Christ's distinction between beauty and ugliness, good and evil!

According to the audio guide, Michelangelo had a very hard time creating these two masterpieces!

In order to fully express his artistic inspiration and creative characteristics, he declined all assistants and completed the creation of two masterpieces entirely by himself.

Due to the long hours of painting on his back, his neck stiffened, and he was no longer able to walk upright like a normal person. Even when he reads a book, he has to put it on the top of his head and look up to read.

Through the introduction of the audio guide, Liping deeply remembered a famous quote from Goethe, which Goethe left after visiting the Sistine Chapel.

Goethe said:

One who has not been to the Sistine Chapel cannot understand what one person can do.

"Michelangelo was great! In order to complete his ingenious works, he actually painted on his back for a long time, which finally caused his neck to stiffen. No wonder Goethe paid the highest respect to him! ”

As she left the Sistine Chapel, Liping expressed her feelings with infinite emotion.

Who knew that Mengdu did not agree with her point of view, and after Mengdu turned off the audio guide, he replied disdainfully:

"I don't think it's worth sacrificing my health for two paintings!"

"However, he exchanged his health for immortal works!"

Liping thought she had misheard Mengdu's answer!

Her eyes widened in astonishment, and she stared at Mondo for a long time, hoping that he would change his story.

It can be said that in this trip abroad, Liping obviously found that Mengdu's words and deeds are very different from him when he pursues himself or falls in love with himself!

Liping couldn't believe it, and she didn't want to believe that such a transformation would really happen in Mengdu's body!

However, just when Liping was expecting Mengdu to change his statement, he didn't expect Mengdu to say something that Liping couldn't believe again!

Dream Says:

"Hey, haven't you heard anything like that? It's called 'The body is your own, everything else is someone else'! ”

Alas——, this is really "more than half a sentence without speculation"!

Liping looked at her husband with a cynical look, shook her head helplessly, and stopped reasoning with him.

After visiting several of the main exhibition halls, it was almost 10:55 a.m.!

Liping hurriedly pulled Mengdu to the exit, and after returning the audio guide to the recycling bin, they went out to see that the members of the tour group were already waiting for them next to the exit.

"Oh, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Wang, you have a good sense of time. It's exactly eleven o'clock! ”

The tour guide Xiao Luo saw that Liping and Mengdu arrived on time at the appointed time, so he praised it with satisfaction.

Then Xiao Luo held up the little pennant and said:

"Now, please hurry up and get in the car, and we will go to the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary immediately. After visiting the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, we will have a Chinese meal. ”

After speaking, he led everyone to the parking lot.