Explore the Sistine Chapel & Vatican Museums' Hidden Gems

About this activity

  • duration-alt_14246718 Duration

    2.5 hours
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Highlights

  • Skip-the-line access to Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.
  • Explore Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and its secrets.
  • Direct entry to St. Peter’s Basilica with Michelangelo’s Pietà.
  • Discover the Vatican Museums' diverse art and history collections.
  • Marvel at Bernini’s optical illusion in St. Peter’s Square.

Your experience

Begin a great day getting into the heart of Vatican City, a cultural jewel of such great significance! Use our skip-the-line ticket to maximize your experience by avoiding long hours wasted in line.

This tour takes you straight to the noble halls of the Vatican Museums.

Here lies one of the largest and most amazing artistic and historical collections found anywhere in the world.

Begin your visit with a walk through the Vatican Museums, actually a composite of galleries wherein is housed some of the best artifacts and greatest artworks of the world.

Among these themed museums are such collections as The Gallery of Tapestries, The Egyptian Museum, The Etruscan Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museums of Classical and Greco-Roman Antiquities, The Philatelic and Numismatic Museum, and finally an Ethnological museum.

All wish to be explored for both beauty and history that they offer within their displays.

As you wander around the Museums, you will be joined by our expert guides.

All are certified by the Vatican and will lead you through these great halls sharing some interesting facts and stories about the works of art that belong to this wide collection.

With their deep knowledge, your visit will turn out to be much better unearthing details which might elude your notice.

At the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s frescoes will leave you awestruck.

An accurate description of the place with narratives that speak more about Michelangelo's self-portrait without skin—this is how he wanted to express his feelings toward a laborious task of restoration for a chapel—will be narrated by our guides.

Walk right into St.

Peter's Basilica, an architectural wonder and probably the most legendarily known religious structures in the world.

The building itself and the great works of art inside will stun you—beginning with a bronze canopy over the papal altar but not ending with Michelangelo's sculpture, La Pietà.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ The tour culminates at St.

Peter's Square where the grandest optical illusion made by the colonnade of Gian Lorenzo Bernini could be witnessed.

This great space with enclosing columns gives a feeling of enclosure that will leave an indelible mark in your memory as you visit Vatican.

This tour will have brought you, not only into the depths of artistry and history that is Vatican but also face to face with its most important treasures in a very unique and comfortable way.

Book your place now to discover the wonders of the Vatican in an unusual and absorbing manner!

What's Included
  • Entrance: Vatican Museums
  • Entrance: Sistine Chapel
  • Online Consultant who will send you boarding information
  • Online support at the time of boarding the tour
  • Priority skip-the-line ticket to enter the Vatican Museums quickly
  • Expert local guide
What's Excluded
  • Pickup and return to the hotel
  • Food and drinks
  • Tips

Itinerary

Starting location:

Via del Mascherino, 37/41

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Vatican Museums

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Sistine Chapel

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Arrive back at:

Via del Mascherino, 37/41

Meeting Point

To Remember

What to bring

  • Passport or ID card

Know before you go

  • If the chosen time is not available, you will be transferred to another time on the same day. These changes do not depend on us. When making the reservation, you are aware of this possibility and we will not accept subsequent complaints or refund requests. If you choose 9:30am and the Vatican ticket office closes, you will be transferred to the next available time: 11:00am, 2:00pm or 4:30pm.
  • For last minute bookings (same day or overnight): in case of lack of spaces, the customer will be accommodated the following day.
  • This tour is shared.
  • It is not advisable to book more than one tour on the same day with close times.
  • "Skip the line" means you will be in the fast line, but there may still be people in front of you.
  • The youth rate is for students and children: photo ID is required.
  • Entry into places of worship and museums requires appropriate clothing. Shorts and sleeveless shirts are not permitted. Knees and shoulders must be covered.
Not Suitable for
  • Wheelchair users