Early Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Tour

About this activity

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  • duration-alt_14246718 Duration

    3 hours
  • guide_13794414 Live tour guide

    English
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Highlights

  • Enjoy an early morning access to the Vatican Museums, the best time to visit it!
  • Visit the Sistine Chapel without the usual bustle of rush hour crowds
  • Experience Rome all day long starting with an early morning visit
  • Make the most of your tour with a professional English-speaking guide

Your experience

Make your trip more enjoyable with Vatican Museums’ early access.

With purchasing this opportunity, you will be able to come before the regular huge crowd does.

Very conveniently located right outside Vatican Museums, your very special introduction starts just as your very informative tour guide shares riveting perspectives and little-known stories on the chapel for a visitor to be really able to sensitize himself to those breathtaking frescoes (though silently, of course).

Skip the long lines entering into the Vatican Museums by entering at 8 a.m., taking advantage of first access before the hordes roll in.

Wander through mythic galleries and rooms made real by the enchanting stories of your guide.

Discover treasures in the Greco-Roman department, which include masterpieces like Laocoön Group, an amazing sculpture of Laocoön in combat against serpants with his sons; and the Belvedere Torso.

One of two major sources of inspiration during the Renaissance.

You can admire the lifelike pictures of emperors and gods that have been models of artists for real long ages.

Continue the view into the enticing Gallery of Maps, which, through excellent 16th-century cartography, pictures all of Italy to the very sweep of its regions.

Leisurely stroll through the calm Belvedere Courtyard and enjoy its perfect plan before emerging into a quite little-known passageway that leads you to the Sistine Chapel.

For within these rooms there is no noise, only tranquility, in which one can enjoy to look at Michelangelo’s tremendous ‘pictures’—including perhaps the world’s single most famous work of art, ‘The Creation of Adam’.

You will understand much more about the artistic techniques, the symbolism, and spiritual import of this work than you ordinarily would.

Only because of your guide’s running commentary.

Finish off the visit with the Sistine Chapel and have something really to remember the trip by: a journey through history, art, and spirituality right at the heart of the Vatican.

Book your early access Vatican tour now to avail of this special offer before it’s swamped with people!

What's Included
  • Early access to the Vatican Museums
  • Access to the Sistine Chapel
  • Helpline and assistance
  • Professional guide
  • Earphones
What's Excluded
  • Entry to St. Peter's Basilica
  • Tips

Itinerary

Starting location:

Via Tunisi, 4

2
Cortile del Belvedere

Guided tour

3
Vatican Museums

Guided tour

4
Gallery of Maps, Vatican Museums

Guided tour

5
Gallery of Tapestries

Guided tour

Finish at:

Piazza Pio Xii, 1, 00193 Roma RM, Italia

Meeting Point

To Remember

What to bring

  • Passport or ID card
  • Passport or ID card for children

Not allowed

  • Luggage or large bags
  • Backpacks

Know before you go

  • Mobile voucher accepted
  • In the event of extraordinary closures or restrictions imposed by the Museums, no refund will be provided. The tour's itinerary may change, but it will have the same duration