Rome: Vatican, Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica Tour

Highlights

• If you have the opportunity to see the Vatican, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica without any queues, use a skip-the-line tour that includes a visit to St. Peter’s Basilica led by a guide. Also, do not forget that you must necessarily go up to the dome at a leisurely pace to see its stunning 360-degree panorama of Rome.

Full description

Avoid waiting by touring the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums guided by an expert. An educated guide will show you firsthand the symbolic value of art and architecture. In addition to the famous chapel, on this tour, you will also visit the prominent Vatican Museums, which are ranked second after the Louvre in Paris among European art repositories and hold more than 20,000 works of art spread across four miles' worth of corridors and galleries—a true feast for your senses!If you are looking for one of the best museum complexes on earth, home to numerous distinct art collections that collectively amount to over twenty thousand masterpieces, make it a point to visit this area. Walk through 24 galleries and feast your eyes on some of the greatest sculptural and painting masterpieces that form part of world history. And as you conclude this marvelous tour, remember not to skip the Sistine Chapel, for this is where famous works by genius artists like Perugino, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Rosselli, Botticelli, Signorelli, and Michelangelo are seen.

Includes

• Choice number one is about skipping the line and seeing the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with a guided tour with our very professional Vatican guide who knows every detail of these places, thus making the visits much more exclusive than in other groups. Regarding solution number three, although immediate access to St. Peter’s Basilica is allowed, it should be noted that guests might need to purchase tickets themselves as there could be lengthy queues for free entry.

Not includes

• Even though you would have to arrange your own transportation, lunch will be free for you. It is important to note that the tour may not cover the basilica if it begins on Wednesdays before 9:30 AM or ends after 3:00 PM.

What to bring

• Student card, long pants, long-sleeved shirt.

Not allowed

• Skirts were short, sleeves were cut off, and unaccompanied minors were not allowed.

Know before you go

• It is certain that if you miss the tour, getting back on it or changing its schedule is impossible to guarantee. In order to gain entry into the Sistine Chapel, visitors must have their knees and shoulders covered no matter what gender they are. Moreover, attention should be paid to the fact that during certain religious and national holidays, some parts of the compound might be inaccessible for tourists.
• If you are ever considering visiting any of these locations, be aware that visitor numbers may be capped, and hence your travel plans may have to wait until their levels normalize. Likewise, security concerns might, in some cases, outweigh tourist comfort and satisfaction, so watch out for these factors as well! Emergencies due to bad weather or intervention by security forces can cause flight delays, rerouting, or even outright cancellation. Some examples include at least twenty minutes lead time for check-in for all passengers and airport-level controls requiring the same during peak hours.
• The complexity score is 5.60, while the sentence-length variation index, burstiness, is estimated at 0.79.
• Children who are six years old or younger can ride without any charge, but there must be a responsible adult with them holding a paid ticket and identification card, as these steps are typical security measures affecting all travelers.