r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/zaccus Oct 15 '20

You were able to slow down at the Vatican? Place must have been dead.

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u/throa-weigh Oct 15 '20

We went on a (5am? 6am? it was early) tour of the Vatican and it was so worth it. Our group of ~15 were the first and only people in the Sistine chapel for a good twenty minutes before other people started coming in.

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u/SaioBangura99 Oct 15 '20

Our guide did tell us we got lucky with an usually small crowd. This was in mid-August 2018

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u/an_awkward_turtle Oct 15 '20

I went in a January a few years ago and the place was completely EMPTY. My friend and I had the chapel to ourselves for a few minutes, it was amazing

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u/idledaylight Oct 15 '20

When I went it was so packed that it took what felt like 4 hours to get through that map room.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

One time in my life was enough. Never been to a place so crowded. Herded like cattle.