Private Vatican Museums & St. Peter's Basilica Tour: Skip-the-Line & Expert Guide

Highlights

• Intimate Private Tour
• Skip-the-Line Entrance
• Expert Guided Tour

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Stop 1

   Pass by

   Private Tour for an intimate experience. SkipThe Line Tickets Included. Tour Guide will be with a sign "VATICAN MUSEUMS TOUR" on it at the address “Viale Vaticano 100” the UPSTAIRS CORNER with Bar "Caffè Vaticano". Please provide to be at the Meeting Point a few minutes in advance. Entrance is strictly limited. If you will arrive late cannot be accommodated, so no refunds or discounts will be issued.

2. 2

   Vatican Museums

   2h

   Discover the Vatican on a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica, Sistine Chapel, and the Vatican Museums. Navigate the vast complex of rooms, artwork, and history with an Expert Tour Guide in a small group. Enjoy priority access entrance, and tour the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica. Follow your tour guide directly inside the vast collection of private artwork that is the Vatican Museums. Walk through the Gallery of the Maps and Gallery of Tapestries as you listen to tales of Vatican intrigue. Vatican Museums will include: • Courtyard of Pigna • Octagonal Courtyard • Pio Clementino Museum • Gallery of Animals • Gallery of Muses • Rotonda Gallery • Candelabra Gallery • Tapestry Museum • Gallery of the Maps • Rooms of Raffaello

3. 3

   Sistine Chapel

   15min

   The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope, in Vatican City.Tthe chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV. Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescos that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo. Admission Included.

4. 4

   St. Peter's Basilica

   30min

   Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. St.Peter's Basilica could be subject to last-minute closures during special celebrations/festivities and on Wednesdays due to the weekly Papal Audience. In this case, you will spend more time inside Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums, It is over our control, so no refunds or discounts will be issued.

Before you go

Location