Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel Skip-the-line Guided Tour
Description
Join our Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel Guided tour and discover some of the most important places of Christianity. An expert Vatican Museum guide will lead you to discover the smallest country in the world that holds the largest collection of masterpieces, such as Michelangelo's and Raffaello's frescoes, sculptures of Greek, Egyptian and Roman Ages, ancient maps and tapestries e much much more...
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Get ready to explore the largest collection of masterpieces in the world, the Vatican Museum. This complex of galleries and buildings treasures incredible paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. Thanks to your guide, you will see the most important artworks, passing by the Pinacoteca, the Egyptian Museum, the Gallery of Tapestries, the Pius-Clementine Museum, and the Gallery of Maps.
Make your way to the Sistine Chapel and admire the breathtaking Michelangelo's frescoes, like the Creation of Adam and the Last Judgement. Remember that the Sistine Chapel is a sacred place and it requires appropriate clothing: knees and shoulders must be covered for both men and women. For this reason, no pictures can be taken and the guide can't give explanations inside the chapel: you will get all the explanation before getting in.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants under 5 years old are free
- Children discount is applied from 6 up 18 years old with a valid ID card to be shown on site
- During religious holidays and special events (Audiences, Beatifications, Masses of the Pope) the Basilica is not accessible. The Basilica is often subject to sudden closures. In these cases it is not possible to guarantee access to the Basilica..
- the Sistine Chapel can be subject of sudden closures: the tour can suffer delays.
- Mandatory dress code for men, women and children: shoulders and knees must be covered, otherwise the access to the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica will be denied
- The tour reservations have strict timing. To join the tour, you are required to be at the meeting point for check-in at least 30 minutes prior to your tour departure time.
- Everyone has to pass security check before entering. Strictly forbidden objects: luggages, glass bottles, weapons, flammable liquids etc..
- From August 6th 2021 cultural sites in Italy will be legally required to ask their customers to show a "Green pass" (the health certificate is known in Italy, proves that the bearer has been fully vaccinated, has recovered from Covid-19 within the past six months, or has received a negative test result in the past 48 hours) before they’re allowed to enter. People from EU and Schengen zone countries, as well as the US, Canada, Uk Israel, and Japan, need to show equivalent health documents issued in their own country.
- The time of this tour may vary. In that case we will send you a message or an email, please leave a telephone number available, with an internet connection. Thank you
Reviews(3)
Tour and tour guide were wonderful. Location for getting passes was incorrect and trying g to find out where we needed to be meant we missed our tour. We did get put on later tour. Disconnect between viator and local tour companies was the story of our trip. But once on them the tours were excellent and viator customer service were good to work with.
Leaving the site. Trip ruined from the start by being given wrong info as to where we redeemed the tickets! Rushing around in the heat to finally find place trip was setting off from and holding up all others on trip so we were not very popular with the others and was asked by the guide to apologise to the other visitors though not our fault!!
the tour was very interesting: we had a young, knowledgeable guide (Andy) that knew literally everything about what we were seeing. He gave us a lot of suggestions for restaurants and shops. Thank you Andy and thank you SPQR for the unforgettable experience!
