Exclusive Early Access Tour: Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel with Expert Guide

Highlights

• Early Access
• Professional Guide
• Peaceful Sistine Chapel

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Vatican Museums

   1h 30min

   Marvel at the museums’ awe-inspiring art collection, world-renowned frescoes inside the Sistine Chapel, and the Renaissance era paintings in the Raphael Room with an advantage of avoiding the stressful long queue and get escorted inside the Vatican Museums through the priority access. After a regular security check, we will head towards the most important galleries and breathtaking masterpieces collection of art. At 75 meters long, the Gallery of the Tapestries is named after the elaborate Flemish tapestries that drape its walls. The Gallery of the Maps, painted between 1580 and 1585, takes its name from the 40 maps frescoed on the walls, representing each of the Italian regions and papal properties at the time of Pope Gregory XIII. Be mesmerized by the beauty contained in the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo’s undisputed masterpiece.

2. 2

   Sistine Chapel

   30min

   You will hear details about the election process called Conclave which ends up with white smoke from the chimney installed in the Chapel. See original "Last Judgement" and try to find Michaelangelo's face in between more than 300 painted characters.

Before you go

Location