Skip-The-Line Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Tour

Explore the history of art at the most amazing museums in the world! Forget standing in line; breeze past even the huge throngs with easy admission and really take your time walking through the Vatican Museums corridors and galleries.

A professional guide will escort you through this amazing Gallery of Candelabra, sumptuous Gallery of Tapestries, and staggering Gallery of Maps based on painted maps of Italy’s regions as envisioned by Dominican Friar Ignazio Danti.

Discover what Renaissance Italians believed was the center of the universe, and appreciate a huge painting by Raphael, The School of Athens, embodying all the principles of the Renaissance.

Then you will walk into the rooms of Raphael—here he has dyed upon wet frescoes in almost endless series, the philosophy as well as the history of ancient times, and has proved his wonderful faculty in composition and narration.

Your experience ends with the entrance to the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo’s legendary frescoes unfold majestically above you.

Absorb each masterpiece silently, allowing the beauty of this timeless creation to resonate within you as you wrap up unforgettable exploration of art and history.