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

Highlights

• Skip-the-line priority access
• Expert guided tour
• Artistic masterpieces

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Vatican Museums

   25min

   Take in one of the world's most significant museums with your tour guide. Admire works of art such as the Lacoonte. Step inside the world's smallest nation.

2. 2

   Museo Pio Clementino

   30min

   Each of the smaller, separate museums that make up the Vatican Museums offers a different kind of experience. With its must-see highlights, the Museo Pio Clementino is one of the most important of these. Don't miss the Round Room, where a massive marble bathtub is protected by a tall bronze statue of Heracles, or the Octagonal Courtyard, where you can see the Apollo Belvedere and the Laocoonte. Sculptures of different animals may be found in the Room of the Animals, and the Gallery of the Candelabra's finely painted 3D vaults will astound you.

3. 3

   Cortile della Pigna

   20min

   Explore one of the many courtyards outside the Vatican, which is characterised by a huge sculpture of a bronze pinecone that gives the courtyard its name.

4. 4

   Galleria Delle Carte Geografiche

   15min

   Discover the Italian cities you have visited or even the hometown of your ancestors at this stop, which is one of the Museums' most popular galleries. In addition to their astonishing detail and elaborate ornamentation, these hand-painted maps from the late 1500s are also worthy of admiration.

5. 5

   Sistine Chapel

   20min

   Reach the Sistine Chapel, the last and most well-known room in the Vatican Museums. Discover firsthand the artwork that made Michelangelo famous across the world as one of the greatest artists of all time at this location, which houses his frescoes.

Before you go

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