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

Highlights

• Private Tour with Expert Guide
• Guaranteed Skip-the-Line Access
• Comprehensive Coverage

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Stop 1

   Pass by

   Private Tour with Dedicated Expert Tour Guide 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 (Skip-The-Line Tickets Included). 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. Admission Included. Your tour ends inside the Basilica. After you’ve finished exploring with your group, you can stay as long as you want on your own. It’s the perfect time to head down into the crypts or climb up to the top of St. Peter’s dome (own expense) for uninterrupted views of Rome. When St. Peter's Basilica is closed or not accessible your tour will end at the Sistine Chapel, 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. St. Peter's Basilica is not included until further notice due to Covid-19 rescrictions

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