Rome: Sistine Chapel & Vatican Treasures Tour with Tickets

Explore the heart of the Vatican with this specially arranged skip-the-line tour that allows you to make the most of your visit to one of the most important historic and cultural centers in the world.

Forget about waiting in those long lines, looking so bored because our tickets will get you right in so you can start experiencing all the wonders that lie beyond.

That's why this full tour will lead through some of the Vatican’s best museums, churches, and hidden treasures, all vividly brought to life by top ‘Vatican-approved’ guides.

We will first pay a visit to Vatican Museums- an apt name considering a plurality as well as range of collections on their display.

Get ready for a fantastic ride through the tangled web of history and art with fabulous gem exhibits at the Art Gallery, which range from age-old times taken there by pharaohs to the cutting edge of the 21st century.

The Etruscan Museum, less known but just as exciting, will make you truly get a grasp of ancient Italy.

This at the Museum of Contemporary Art between so much ‘antiquity’ has exacerbated this issue by mounting modern masterpieces on the history of ancient sculptures the Louvre previously displayed in its Museums of Classical and Greco-Roman Antiquities.

The itinerary even extends to Philatelic and Numismatic Museums, where a unique series of stamps and coins are shown, together with Ethnological Museum having to do with religious and cultural artifacts [from right across the globe].

In the Tapestry Room, masterworks that have been woven for centuries relate the history, culture, and faith of great peoples.

You literally hop over to the Map Room—fine, one of the very best in the form of correctly accurate frescos in every tiny detail showing cartography of Italy as was being learned centuries ago; an amazing glimpse at the way artists and scientists envisioned the world.

The tour ends at the world-famous Sistine Chapel, which glows with very reverent, intimidatingly incredible frescoes by Michelangelo on walls and ceiling.

Your guide tells you everything about the illustrious history of the chapel and all those troubles which Michelangelo met during its creation.

Hear, for the first time in your life, some interesting anecdotes and ‘hidden’ details such as the artist’s haunting boneless self-portrait–a symbolic expression of contempt for being commissioned to repaint the chapel.

When you look at those huge works of “The Creation of Adam” and “The Last Judgment,” you will start to appreciate the technique, the dedication, and the talent to make that kind of masterpiece unmatched.

The visit continues—by unique direct access we are going to introduce you into St.

Peter’s Basilica, a marvellous sample of Renaissance design and one of the most important religious buildings in the world.

Walking in there you have this great view of the Papal altar with that bronze canopy by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.