Creation

A trip to Rome, Italy is always a fascination. That place is filled with so many of the world’s creations, so old, and so beautiful, that only the trip itself gives you the feeling that you will walk along the steps of the greatest people in the history. And only this gives you chills!

Being in the “Eternal City” obliges you to visit one other ‘eternal’ place – the Vatican City – the womb of Christianity. As a person who believes in anything saint, you have to visit this peaceful place, at least once in your life… if not for the Holiness, at least for the priceless pieces of art, gated in this incredibly small and rich country.

To get inside might be a test of endurance – hard, but not impossible. The Holy See is surrounded by a tall and thick defense wall, and early in the morning the wall is surrounded by thousands of people waiting to get and see what is the ancient wall defending. The visiting hours are daily from 10:00-15:30 (with some exceptions).

... After winning over the infinite line of tourists that want to see pretty much what you don’t know that you will see, you get inside. You pass through Security, and when you thought you’re actually the winner, you find out there is another line you have to defeat – the one for the entrance tickets (Regular 13 €; Reduced 8 €; Special 4 €; some times Free). With the ticket in one hand, you make the next step – start the trip through all the incommensurable values of all art history – from antiquity, renaissance, modern era, and all the way to the contemporaneous one. Through an interminable journey with emotional stops in front of unique pieces of art, by Raphaello, Michelangelo, da Vinci, and also thousands of more or less famous painters and sculptors, you flow down the corridors of the Vatican Museum – the place where tens of generations of priests gathered and preserved the most important proofs of the human creation. The trip is long, exhausting, it lets you stunned in front of many of the pieces, it takes all your powers if front of such beauties...

Nevertheless, the peak of the trip is the Sistine Chapel – the place where beauty meets genius, myth and faith. Getting there is unexpected. No matter how much you would know about this place, is impossible not to amaze you, when you first bump into it. Everywhere in the museum there are sings announcing that you are heading to the right direction, towards the most known and visited place in Vatican... At one point you even get to walk some small stairs, being pushed by tens of people hurrying up, God knows where (?), and suddenly you find yourself in a new room. It is different form everything you’ve seen before. You look... still having in your head all those veritable art proofs you’ve just seen... But nothing compares to this. At one point you realize you’ve even forgotten why were you walking through Vatican. And then…, you clearly see it: you’re there! You finally made it, there! Of course, after a whole morning of facing art, this amazes you more, all close to tears. You are overwhelmed. You don’t know where to look. You don’t see it. A moment later you remember it should be in the middle of the ceiling, between all those faces, and bodies.

And then…

The Creation.