Vatican Museums & Open Bus Combo: Skip-the-Line Entry & Panoramic Tour in Rome

Highlights

• Vatican Museums Entry
• Panoramic Open Bus Tour
• Convenience & Flexibility

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Vatican Museums

   2h

   The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are Christian and art museums located within the city boundaries of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by popes throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display,and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments

2. 2

   Sistine Chapel

   1h

   It is known throughout the world both to be the place where the conclave and other official ceremonies of the Pope (in the past also some papal coronations) are held, both to be decorated with one of the most famous and celebrated works of art of the artistic civilization Western, the frescoes by Michelangelo Buonarroti, which cover the Vault (1508-1512) and the bottom wall (of the Last Judgement) above the altar (1535-1541).

Before you go

Location