The main "feature" of Italy's excursion, to which, like moths to the light of a lantern in the night, lovers of recreation flock with the benefit for the soul from all over the world - fantastic beauty and amazing filling of museums..Italy really is full of museums .Here literally that neither the building - the museum .Of course, most of them are concentrated in the largest cities: Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Venice, Florence .And of course, most of the museums are devoted to Italy's richest artistic heritage - few other lands were so generous to outstanding artists, sculptors and architects, like the Apennine Peninsula .So there is nothing surprising in that all 365 days of the year international tourists get into the museums of Italy - the Vatican complex and the Uffizi gallery, the Brera, Borghese and the Academy galleries, Palazzo Pitti and Vecchio, Raphael stanzas and many, many other $ ± .

Fine Arts

Filled with Mediterranean sun paintings, literally living statues, scrupulously worked to the smallest detail, elegant items of glass, bronze, ceramics - all this magnificence exhibited in the fine arts museums of Italy. And as you have no doubt guessed, there are an absolute majority of such museum collections here.

Getting acquainted with the best museums is worth starting, perhaps, from the capital. The best of the best are conveniently concentrated in the territory of the Vatican mini-state: there are already 19 buildings with more than 1,500 exhibition spaces. This is the Chiaramonti Museum, the Pinakothek, the Vatican Library, the Belvedere, and the Sistine Chapel. By the way, it is a mistake to assume that only paintings covered with gray ages are exhibited here - in Vatican exhibition halls there are also enough modern works (of course, within the framework of politically correct themes).

One of the most ancient museums not only in Italy itself, but also in all of Europe, is in Florence - this is the Uffizi Gallery. Here is the most complete collection of works by Italian artists. Another pearl of the city is the San Marco Museum with an abundance of works by medieval artists, sculptors, architects.

History and archeology

On the part of historical and archaeological museums Rome again ahead of Italy the whole of .It is no wonder, after all the history of the city is more than 2700 years, during which Rome was repeatedly rebuilt, destroyed and again rebelled from the ashes .Point number one here - the luxurious Capitoline Museums, located on the same hill where the Italian capital was once founded .The richest collection of antique sculpture is exhibited in the National Roman Museum, and in the Vatican Library one can admire the magnificent collection of priceless manuscripts .

Florence, Venice, Milan also do not lag behind in the history museums. Palazzo Vecchio, for example, is not only a container of art objects, but also a magnificent building in itself, along which one can study the history of Italian architecture. Ancient Naples invites tourists to visit the National Archaeological Museum, and the "water" Venice boasts a remarkable museum of the history of the navy - as they say, first-hand!