Vatican & Sistine Chapel Tour – Basilica Access Option

About this activity

  • document-signed_15399607 Cancellation policy

    This activity is non-refundable
  • duration-alt_14246718 Duration

    2.5 hours
  • guide_13794414 Live tour guide

    Italian English Spanish Portuguese
  • portal-enter_10462703 Skip the line through a separate entrance

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Highlights

  • Feast your eyes on the magnificence of the Sistine Chapel and its works of art
  • Breeze past the ticket line to maximize your time enjoying the Vatican Museums
  • See the vast collection of art amassed by the popes with an art historian guide
  • Discover the Gallery of Tapestries, Gallery of Maps, and Pio-Clementino Museum
  • Admire famous frescoes such as The Last Judgement and The Creation of Adam

Your experience

Join a small party tour of the Vatican Museums at Rome in going over the City of the Vatican, known to be the smallest nation in the world and one of most sacred places belonging to Christianity.

Skip the line for tickets and long lines outside so that you may have more time inside this marvelous place.

This is the large art set of the Pope covers about 7km of works.

Your guide will share useful facts as they show key points like the Pio-Clementino Museum with its old statues, the Gallery of Maps having its map frescoes and the Gallery of Tapestries decked with Flemish wall hangings.

Go on to see the Sistine Chapel, a great store of art wealth by itself.

Look up at the beautiful ceiling made by Michelangelo, the Italian painter.

It is known all over the world for its wonderful art work.

Look in awe at the painting of The Last Judgment that covers the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel with The Creation of Adam on the ceiling.

Find out why Michelangelo was at first not willing to take up this great task and see how his work later came to stand for an important part of the Renaissance.

What's Included
  • Vatican Museums entry tickets
  • Live guide
  • Headsets
What's Excluded
  • Tips

Itinerary

2 starting location options:

Via Sebastiano Veniero, 5, Via Sebastiano Veniero, 5

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Vatican Museums

Guided tour, Pass by (105 minutes)

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Sistine Chapel

Guided tour (10 minutes)

2 drop-off locations:

Basilica di San Pietro, Viale Vaticano

Meeting Point

To Remember

Not allowed

  • Shorts
  • Weapons or sharp objects