Rome: Private Kid-Friendly Tour of Vatican City and Museums

Walk to the Vatican Museums with your guide, where you will skip the lines because of your already-bought tickets ready to start looking around.

The first stop will be at the big collection of old Roman and Greek statues found over time through many digs in Rome.

Your guide will point out the most important works like 'Belvedere Apollo' and 'Sarcophagi of Helena and Constantina,' mother and daughter to Emperor Constantine.

The tour continues to the Room of Animals and the Gallery of Candelabra where rare Roman mosaics are viewed with splendid statues-Diana of Ephesus, the Muses, and many Greek philosophers-then moves through the Gallery of Tapestries, the Sobieski Hall, and finally brings you to the Raphael Rooms.

These were at first the private quarters of Pope Julius II, decorated by Raphael, and it is here that two of his most famous works-'The Parnassus' and 'The School of Athens'-can be seen.

The Sistine Chapel is naturally the highlight of a visit to the Vatican and, indeed, Italy’s most popular attraction.

Here, they listen as their guide shares insight into Michelangelo’s famous frescoes ‘The Last Judgment’ and ‘The Creation of Adam,’ as well as stories of Moses and Jesus told by Botticelli, Perugino, and many more great artists of the Renaissance.

Then you will go to the famous Catholic Church, St.

Peter’s Basilica where Michelangelo’s renowned ‘Pieta’ is on display and also contains the tombs of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II.

In the end, you will leave basilica into the wide area of Saint Peter's Square.

The chimney from which the smoke goes out to announce to the world that a new pope has been elected can be seen from this spot together with Bernini’s famous statues.

After some more stories, your guide says goodbye and leaves you in the square so that you can walk around at your own pace.

This is just where such a great tour of Vatican City should end.