Private Vatican Tour of Museums, Sistine Chapel & Basilica

As a result of the Pope's recent death and the upcoming papal conclave, Vatican officials have decided to keep the Sistine Chapel closed for now.

However, your ticket will still be honored for the Vatican Museums and other areas that are open to you.

Take a guided tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St.

Peter's Basilica to see amazing masterworks from the Raphael Rooms and from Michelangelo in his famous chapel.

This tour will start at the Vatican Museums and continue through this beautiful place: first going through the Gallery of Maps-a hallway showing 40 frescoed representations done in 16th-century Italy-then proceeding into the rooms of Raphael, containing *The School of Athens*, one celebrated masterpiece of Renaissance art.

Appreciate craftsmanship such as that found in the Gallery of Tapestries, showing elaborate Flemish works from the 16th century depicting biblical stories.

Do not miss the opportunity to capture the beauty of the Spiral Staircase, an architectural masterpiece by Giuseppe Momo.

Continue your visit to Pio-Clementine Museum, where you will see ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, among them *Laocoön and His Sons* and *The Belvedere Torso*.

Then step into the Sistine Chapel; there to see Michelangelo's frescoes leave a great impression, his ceilings in *Genesis* and *The Last Judgment*.

This is a chapel that will be used for papal conclave-chapel having much history as well as spiritual significance.

Guests on focused or long tours can find less-known gems like the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, which shows old Etruscan items; the Vatican Pinacoteca, where great works by Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael hang; and the Borgia Apartments, decorated with the lively frescoes of Pinturicchio.

Your visit can end with booked entry to St.

Peter’s Basilica, letting you skip the line directly from the Sistine Chapel.