Private tour of Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's
Description
Admire priceless works of art from the Papal collections in the Vatican Museums. Michelangelo’s wonderful frescoes in the Sistine Chapel will leave you breathless. Finish your visit in the magnificent St Peter's Basilica.
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Itinerary
Enjoy an exciting visit through art and religion in one of the world's most magnificent museums. Wander through the Vatican Museums with your private guide and get to visit the Greek Cross Gallery and its wonderful ancient sarcophagi, then tour the Sala degli Animali to see a virtual menagerie of fantastic beasts, real and imagined. Walk the Upper Galleries, including the enchanting Gallery of Maps, to see how cartographers depicted the world through the ages. Marvel at Raphael Rooms and look at enchanting frescoes such as "The school of Athens" and "The deliverance of Saint Peters", then, rest for a while in the Borgia Apartments.
Michelangelo’s wonderful frescoes in Sistine Chapel will leave you breathless
End your visit in the most important Basilica for Christianism and marvel at Michelangelo's Pietà.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Each traveler must present a valid passport or ID that matches the name provided at the time of booking in order to enter
- St. Peter's Basilica is subject to last-minute closures for religious ceremonies. When this happens, we are happy to offer clients an extended tour of the Vatican Museums. Although we try to notify tour groups in advance if disruptions to the Basilica's opening hours are planned, this is not always possible and in such cases we are unable to provide refunds or discounts.
- On Wednesdays, due to Papal Audiences, access to St. Peter's Basilica won't be possible until 1 p.m.
- You will receive a confirmation at the time of booking
Reviews(4)
We had a fantastic tour with Valeria, an enthusiastic and knowledgable guide. It’s so evident Valeria had a deep love for the subject matter and this came across in the enthusiasm and knowledge during the tour. It was also extremely impressive how she managed to deliver this knowledge while walking backwards (so she could face us) through an extremely busy set of buildings. Bravo 🙌
I loved everything about this tour: the Museums are wonderful and our guide Silvia was the best ever!! She knew every detail and she was really caring :) I really recommend
We did the skip the line tour of the Vatican, St Peters , Forum and Colosseum. While our tour guide was very knowledgeable she didn’t like the fact that I wasn’t bilingual, specifically that I was born in the US and didn’t speak Spanish (the others in my group spoke English and Spanish). After she recovered from the horror of being in the presence of a non-bilingual, she singled me out for a lecture about my ancestry, US history (revisionist to suit her narrative) and for the most part pretended like I didn’t exist for most of the tour. If you are from the US and don’t speak Spanish or Italian then I would recommend that you find a different tour. Even though this one advertises that English is an option you might get a guide that is less than enthusiastic at the prospect of having to speak English to you. You don’t want what might possibly be your first and last trip to Rome to be ruined by such an attitude.
Tour was wonderful and our guide was so knowledgeable about what we saw from start to finish. So enjoyed!
