Exclusive Private Tour: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, Basilica

Highlights

• Skip-the-line Vatican Museums access
• Private licensed guide
• Personalized experience

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Vatican Museums

   1h

   Your tour will start after having met your guide who will escort you for all the 3 hours of your private tour. You will first enter the Vatican Museums and Upper Galleries, including the Maps, Tapestries, and Candelabra ones. The galleries connect the north section of the Vatican Palace with the Sistine Chapel. Many Roman statues discovered during the excavations and many spectacular painted rooms are conserved in the rooms.

2. 2

   Stanze di Raffaello

   20min

   While Raphael was painting the Room of the Signatura, Michelangelo was working on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. The two artists were rivals but Raphael recognized Michelangelo’s talent in his “School of Athens”. Here you will admire the Parnassus and the Dispute over the Sacrament.

3. 3

   Vatican Museums

   20min

   After having visited the beautiful Raphael Rooms, you will approach the Borgia apartment, which was painted by Pinturicchio and commissioned by the Spanish Pope Alexander VI Borgia. These rooms are inside the oldest section of the Apostolic Palace. You will visit its main rooms, which preserve also part of the artworks from modern and contemporary art.

4. 4

   Vatican Museums

   20min

   Then, you will arrive in the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries, which had been created thanks to the several donations in honor of Pope Paul VI: during a special Speech inside the Sistine Chapel he called back to the Church modern and contemporary artists in order to recreate a link between art and church. Many donations arrived from the United States and other countries. Among the many masterpieces, you will admire Matisse’s, Chagall’s, Dalì’s, and Bacon’s works.

5. 5

   Sistine Chapel

   30min

   After having visited the Vatican Museums, you will enter the Sistine Chapel, where you will admire Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with the Frescoes painted in the 1500s for the Pope Julius II and Paul III. Michelangelo first painted the Ceiling where he represented The Creation of the World and stories of Noah’s life. When he was 61 years old Michelangelo painted The Last Judgement on the wall behind the altar.

6. 6

   St. Peter's Basilica

   15min

   The access to the Basilica is included only if option selected

Before you go

Location