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Visit the Vatican in Rome!
Meet your local guide and pay your fee to enter the Vatican Museums. Then, with your skip-the-line ticket, step inside to start your Vatican and Sistine Chapel tour. Follow your guide, listening to tales of saintliness and scandal, and learn about the Vatican’s place as one of the holiest sites in Christendom.
Italian art flourished in the Renaissance and baroque periods, and the Vatican popes put together one of the world’s largest collections of private art with frescos, paintings, sculptures and treasure. See the highlights as you walk through galleries such as Raphael’s Rooms, and hear stories behind works such as the School of Athens — a piece that features images of Michelangelo and Raphael himself.
Pass through halls such as the Gallery of the Masks and Gallery of the Maps. Then, make your way into the Sistine Chapel. A sacred spot and the private papal chapel, the Sistine Chapel is also renowned for its Michelangelo frescoes — The Last Judgement and The Creation of Adam.
Continue to St Peter’s Basilica, which is said to be built on the ground where St Peter is buried. Admire La Pietà, an early Michelangelo sculpture, and pause to rub the foot of a statue of St Peter, said to bring good luck. Your Vatican and St Peter’s Basilica tour then finishes outside the church.
Morning Tour:
Skip the line and the crowds when you upgrade to this morning tour, with a maximum group size of 12 people. At this early time, your group enters the Vatican Museums before the doors open to the general public.
Evening Tour:
Upgrade to tour the Vatican Museums after the doors close to the public. This evening option is only available for limited period, on Friday evenings from May 6 to July 26, and September 6 to October 25. Numbers are restricted to 20 people, and the tour does not include entry to St Peter’s Basilica.
September 2016
Real good guided tour,even with the crowds.
Lots of interesting information and plenty of time to take pictures.
Thank you to our guide.
September 2016
This tour was perfect! Just about 8 in the group. Our tour guide was fabulous. I and #39;m sorry I don and #39;t remember her name. Maybe Irene or Elaine
September 2016
Our guide Sylvia was very informed and had a good knowledge of history. She was funny at times and made our whole experience in the Vatican a very enjoyable one. I came out knowing a lot more than I imagined because we got that bit of knowledge from Sylvia that is not in the hisory books making our tour memorable and inspired me to do some of my own research. Thank you Sylvia you were excellent!
September 2016
Very nice tour, well informed guide, interesting history of The Vatican and Sistine Chapel. Thanks.
September 2016
The staff in the office were very helpful - thank you. Highly recommended and well worth missing the queue.
September 2016
Our guide Laura made the Vatican museum experience unforgettable! The art collections are so rich that a tour with a guide is highly recommended.
September 2016
Despite the fact that our tour was booked for the day after the canonization of Mother Teresa and the crowds were intense, our guide was effective and adapted to the situation very well. She provided novel insights and stories and made a VERY helpful suggestion about how to gain entrance to the Basilica once it open again later in the day it was not open in the morning for our tour. All in all we were very pleased with the tour and found it informative historically and artistically. AND it expedited our entrance very significantly.
September 2016
Great tour, and wonderful guide in Pepe. Pepe was terrifically knowledgeable and a delightful person. Got our little group really well organized and knew how to manage us through a crowd. Saw all the wonderful sights. Couldn't possibly get as much out of it without a guide. Thoroughly recommended.
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