VIP experience with this skip the Vatican lines priority entrance official private tour which includes the Vatican Museum, the Sistine Chapel, the Basilica of St. Peter - Join this 3-hour guided tour to see the magnificent highlights of the Vatican City. With your expert private guide, explore the Museum one of the most extraordinary collections of art in the world. Pause in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's masterpiece, and from there visit St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Holy Caves where many popes are buried..

Tour suitable for families with kids, couples and small groups!

Itinerary
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Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Citta del Vaticano 1, 00120 Vatican City Italy

See Michelangelo masterpiece: "The Last Judgment"

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

You will see the maps gallery, the candelabra gallery, the tapestry gallery and many more

Duration: 2 hours

Pass By: St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), Vatican City Italy

After the tour you will exit on Saint Peter Square

Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza di San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

You will enter the basilica and see Michelangelo's "Pietà", Popes tombs, Bernini's Altar.

Duration: 30 minutes

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This 3 hours private tour is the perfect occasion for you to explore one of the biggest art collections in the world, with a private guide; in this way, you would not just wander around it, but you will be living an unforgettable experience.

You will be picked up at your central Hotel in Rome: your private driver will escort you with car or minivan to Vatican Museums entrance, where you will meet your private guide.

During this amazing tour, you will visit not only the Vatican Museums, but also the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

The first part of this tour will be focused on the Vatican Museums and Upper Galleries, including one of the Maps, Tapestries, and Candelabra. In the rooms, you will have the opportunity to admire many Roman statues discovered during the excavations and many spectacular painted rooms.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Then, you will enter the Raphael Rooms, which were part of Pope Julius II's apartments. Here, while the young Raphael was painting the Room of the “Signatura”, Michelangelo was painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The two artists were a rivalry but Raphael will recognize the talent of Michelangelo in the “School of Athens”, you will see also the Parnassus and the Dispute over the Sacrament.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

After having admired the Raphael Rooms, you will move to the Borgia Rooms. These rooms, which were commissioned by the Spanish Pope Alexander VI Borgia and painted by Pinturicchio, are inside the oldest section of the Apostolic Palace.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Finally, you will arrive in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries, created thanks to the several donations in honor of Pope Paul VI that during a special Speech inside the Sistine Chapel he called back to the Church the modern and contemporary artists recreating the link between art and church. Many donations arrived from the United States and other countries. In fact, among the many famous artists, you will notice Matisse, Chagall, Dalì, Bacon.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Citta del Vaticano 1, 00120 Vatican City Italy

After the visit to the Vatican Museums, you will access the Sistine Chapel. Here you will be hit by the amazing view of Michelangelo's frescoes: the Creation of the World on the ceiling and the Last Judgment on the wall behind the altar of the chapel

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza di San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Finally, yo.u will enter the amazing St. Peter's Basilica, where you will admire its internal structure and many beautiful works of art. Among the many, you will be able to appreciate Michelangelo's Pietà and the Bernini's Baldacchino.

Duration: 30 minutes

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