Sistine Chapel, Basilica & Vatican Museums: Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

Highlights

• Skip-the-Line Access
• Expert Guide
• Full Access

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Sistine Chapel

   45min

   LIVETour will cover the magnificent SISTINE CHAPEL.Sistine Chapel is in the Apostolic Palace, in Vatican City and the official residence of the pope. Originally known as the Cappella Magna , the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected.During the reign of Sixtus IV, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli, created a series of frescos depicting the Life of Moses and the Life of Christ, offset by papal portraits above and trompe-l'œil drapery below. These paintings were completed in 1482, and on 15 August 1483 Sixtus IV Between 1508 and 1512, under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted the chapel's ceiling between 1535 and 1541, painted The Last Judgment for Popes Clement VII and Paul III.

2. 2

   Vatican Museums

   1h 40min

   VISTORS WILL ENJOY WALKING AROUND WITH OUR GUIDE BY LISTINING TO History OF Pinacoteca Vaticana,.Collection of Modern Religious Art, Sculpture museums,Museo Pio-Clementino,Museo Chiaramonti,Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Museo Gregoriano Egiziano,Vatican Historical Museum,HighlightsVISITORS WILL HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO ASK ANY QUESTION TO GUIDE AND OUR WILL BE PROMPT TO REPLY ALL INFORMATION WHICH THE TRAVERLLERS NEED TO KNOW.,

3. 3

   Vatican Museums

   35min

   the tour of raphael rooms will be done by our official guide just before go to visit the sistine chapel. Raphael Rooms-form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo. Pope Julius II commissioned Raphael, then a relatively young artist from Urbino, and his studio in 1508 or 1509 to redecorate the existing interiors of the rooms entirely. It was possibly Julius' intent to outshine the apartments of his predecessor (and rival) Pope Alexander VI, as the Stanze are directly above Alexander's Borgia Apartment. They are on the third floor, overlooking the south side of the Belvedere Courtyard.Following Raphael's death in 1520, his assistants Gianfrancesco Penni, Giulio Romano and Raffaellino del Colle finished the project with the frescoes in the Sala di Costantino.

4. 4

   St. Peter's Basilica

   Pass by

   After the tour of MUSEUM and the SISTINE CHAPEL Our guide will lead a straight way to go to saint peter basilica .then the tour will finish inside Saint Peter basilica Basilica is the biggest church in the world.

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