Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Private Tour: Art & History with Dedicated Guide

Highlights

• Private Guided Tour
• Priceless Artworks
• Sistine Chapel

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Vatican Museums

   2h 30min

   Enjoy an exciting visit through art and religion in one of the world's most magnificent museums in the world. You will have the change to wander through the Vatican Museums with your private guide and you will get to visit the Greek Cross Gallery and its wonderful ancient sarcophagi, then you will tour the Sala degli Animali to see a virtual menagerie of fantastic beasts, real and imagined. You will also walk the Upper Galleries, including the enchanting Gallery of Maps, to see how cartographers used to depict the world through the ages. You will admire Raphael's Rooms and its enchanting frescoes such as "The School of Athens" and "The Deliverance of Saint Peters", then, you will rest for a while in the Borgia Apartments.

2. 2

   Sistine Chapel

   30min

   In the Sistine Chapel, you will admire Michelangelo's wonderful frescoes such as The Last Judgement and the Creation of Adam and you will learn how this amazing Renaissance painter and how the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel took four years of hard work to complete.

Before you go

Location