Private Early Morning Vatican & Sistine Chapel Tour

Visit the Sistine Chapel the way the Popes and privileged few would have seen it in that breaking light of day.

This exclusive tour allows an ideal way to view the Sistine Chapel with numerous other masterpieces all housed within the Vatican Museums.

With your guide’s help, you’ll hear of the cultural context in which these pieces originated to soak up the spirit of the Renaissance.

This special Vatican private tour encourages people to consider a critical juncture in human history when artistic flowering was married with scientific breakthroughs, two cornerstones of much of our modern world.

You will find great masterpieces in this list Greek timeless sculptures like the Laocoon, Belvedere Torso, Apollo Belvedere- all brought back before the very eyes of Michelangelo and Raphael, who then studied them and came to love it all in the same architectural setting that preserves them today.

/ The works of these artists come out of that intensive study.” During your private visit to the Vatican you will walk through Pinecone courtyard, Belvedere courtyard and tapestry galleries where a selection of masterpieces will await you.

Your guide will re-create with skill the atmosphere of those years so that you can appreciate even more the historical meaning of Raphael Rooms and Sistine Chapel.

Please take note that St.

Peter's Basilica may open late or close unexpectedly due to religious ceremonies.

Final edits of the text are usually last-minute changes for safety, so visitors aren’t informed in advance.

Instead, you will have a deep dive in the Vatican Museums, much more comprehensive.