Rome: Sistine Chapel & Vatican Treasures Tour with Tickets

Live the heart of the Vatican with our carefully planned skip-the-line visit aimed at making full use of your stay at this leading historical and cultural spot.

Take away the hassle of long queues and lost time—our tickets offer you the ability to skip the masses, allowing you to go right into marvels waiting for you.

This profound journey will bring you through the most beautiful museums, sacred sites, and secret gems of the Vatican all shown by expert guides licensed by the Vatican.

It starts with a trip to the Vatican Museums.

The name is plural because of their scope and the size of collections within them.

Prepare for shocks as we walk this puzzling maze of history and artistry with some famous displays like the Art Gallery that hosts works covering many centuries and the Egyptian Museum where relics from old times-the age of Pharaohs-are kept.

We will also be looking into the less known yet quite fascinating Etruscan Museum which helps shed light on civilizations belonging to ancient Italy and its peers in the Museum of Contemporary Art where gems from modern times are placed strikingly against the ancient.

In the Galleries of Classical and Greco-Roman Antiquity, one sees those ancient sculpture and art forms that impressed so heavily upon Western art.

It also embraces within its fold the Philatelic and Numismatic Museum wherein resides a curious collection of stamps and coins.

In the Ethnological Museum, religious as well as cultural artifacts hailing from various regions of the world are studied.

Walk into the Hall of Tapestries,and see ancient looms art talking about history, culture and religion.

After that go to the Gallery of Geographical Maps; here you will come across beautifully detailed fresco work representing maps from many centuries on how artists and scientists conceived the world.

Talk about the Chapel whose paintings are truly some of the greatest in the entire world-looked at with respect by people on walls and roofs-and yes, made by Michelangelo.

Let your guide give you a full account of that chapel's bright past history along with problems faced by Michelangelo while creating it.

Learn many fun stories plus hidden details-for example, the frightening self-picture without bones of the artist thrown onto skin as a sign of rudeness toward the task meant to repaint that very chapel.

By looking at such great works of art as The Creation of Adam and The Last Judgment, understand more about skill, devotion, and smartness which had made possible work so unequaled.

The tour does not end here-through privileged access, we will bring you inside St.

Peter's Basilica, a great masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and one of the most important religious buildings in the world.

You will be welcomed by the stunning view of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s bronze canopy that beautifully adorns the papal altar.