Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Private Evening Tour

During the private evening visit to the Vatican Museums, you will skip most lines that consume so much of your precious time.

The Vatican holds what is probably the single most enormous collection of art in human history.

As you go through the museum, your guide will highlight some of these.

Among these world-famous features are the stunning Greek and Roman sculptures; here, too, secret intrigues regarding the birth of these masterpieces will be revealed.

A few lesser-known tales and anecdotes about the popes who resided in these splendid rooms that now house more than 70,000 works of art will be related by your expert guide.

Octagonal and Pinecone Courtyard provided access over there to spend an evening with beauty.

Your guide will insist you do not miss the renowned Belvedere Torso, one of the greatest masterpieces produced in antiquity that would inspire Michelangelo when working on the Sistine Chapel.

I find the other galleries a must to see, particularly the Tapestries Gallery with designs made by the great students of Raphael and the Gallery of Maps with 40 panels of painted topographical maps by Ignazio Danti.

With your guide, you are taken to the gorgeous Raphael Rooms and have nice stories about those masterpieces just at that place where Raphael spent so many hours on his art.

Your visit ends in the truly awesome Sistine Chapel.

In softly lit evening light, arched lunette windows are a sight that you never forget.

Take time to enjoy this fantastic ‘picture’ that occupies 8,000 square feet painted in four years.