Have any of y'all been to the Sistine Chapel? It's a beautiful, wonderful, awe-inspiring building, but it has a few downsides:
- It takes roughly 1.5 hours of walking briskly through a maze of a museum to get to the Chapel
- The Chapel is packed
- The Chapel is uncomfortably hot
- It doesn't smell great in there
- The Chapel is not quiet (not that anyone is being loud, but its a relatively small place full of people murmuring in shock of the beauty of the place - all their voices add up)
- There are several guards yelling every 10-20 seconds that no one can sit down
- The most famous paintings are on the ceiling. I'd never tried walking/shuffling for 10 minutes through a chapel with my head aimed up the whole time - it gets painful - way more painful than I would have guessed.
So, to fix all of those problems, the Vatican has published a high-res panorama of the room that you can explore in your PJ's. It's beautiful.
Granted, not as pretty as seeing it all in person, but at least you won't get a neck cramp.
Enjoy!
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