Museums in Italy

The bronze She-wolf that became the symbol of Rome, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in a glass hall with the remains of the bronze colossus of Constantine, paintings by Titian, Caravaggio and Rubens, and the Tabularium's gallery opening onto the Roman Forum.

Twenty frescoed rooms still decorated as the architect Antonio Asprucci arranged them from 1770, each around a sculpture at its centre, Bernini's Apollo and Daphne among them.

Exhibitions on two floors of the palace, which have ranged from Guercino and Bernini's Rome to the treasures of the pharaohs and Pontormo. A great window designed by Gae Aulenti looks out over the rooftops and church domes of Rome as far as Saint Peter's.

Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, seen in a timed slot of fifteen minutes, in Santa Maria delle Grazie.

Painting from Giotto and Botticelli to Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, with the Medici's ancient statues and busts along the corridors.

The Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo painted the Ceiling and the Last Judgement on the altar wall, the four Stanze frescoed by Raphael and his school, and the Popes' classical sculpture, begun in the Octagonal Court.

Painted crosses among the gold-ground panels of the 12th and 13th centuries, Simone Martini's Saint Catherine polyptych, Masaccio's Saint Paul, Donatello's gilded bronze reliquary bust of San Rossore, marble sculpture by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, and Islamic ceramics from the 10th to the 13th century.