Our Price $24.95

Join art historian Jane McIntosh for an educational and entertaining audio tour (on CD) of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. What makes Jane's audio tour unique is that she offers 50 minutes of in-depth context commentary, which you can listen to as you travel to Rome. Jane's guide is also unique in that you can choose to follow a shorter highlights tour (105 minutes) or in-depth tour (150 minutes) depending on the time you have to visit one of world's greatest churches!

"Jane's Smart Art Guide to St Peter's is certainly one of the most useful works on the basilica. & I'm quite impressed and delighted. I often look for the mistakes so often found in the guide books, but I'm having a difficult time finding any [in Jane's audio guide]." -- Alan Howard, Editor, www.stpetersbasilica.org

Details: Customize the Audio Tour
Your tour of the interior of St. Peter's can be tailored to your degree of interest and available time -- without loss of continuity -- by simply skipping specified tracks -- from a Highlights Tour of about 1¾ hours, to an In-Depth Tour of about 2½ hours.

Context Guide "Slice of History" ... 50 minutes
On-site Guide to Piazza & Exterior ... 20 minutes
On-Site Guide to Interior (customizable) ... 100 to 150 minutes

About St. Peter's
The Vatican's Basilica of St. Peter was inevitably at the center of the ebb and flow of western Christendom's political, social, religious and cultural development. Under construction for more than 150 years, it has been witness to physical and spiritual neglect, the devastating Sack of Rome, Reformations, and papal corruption and self-interest, as well as exemplary spiritual humility.

For almost half a millennium, Michelangelo's spectacular dome has soared over the Vatican, the most recognized landmark of all among the many domes of Rome's skyline. In the vast, awe-inspiring wonder of the interior of St. Peter's, what could easily have been overwhelming volume and mass has been scaled into an accessible frame of human reference by the perfect relationships among the architectural components. The profusion of decorative elements, because of the sheer massiveness of scale, serves to unify the parts, creating harmony rather than chaos.