Rome: Vatican Museums & Sistine Chaple Private Tour

Take a private visit to Vatican City so you can bypass the long lines and fully immerse yourself in the great history of the Vatican.

See the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and St.

Peter's Basilica with your choice of either the Vatican Gardens or Vatican Necropolis.

Begin your journey with fast-track access to the Vatican Museums.

While walking through the galleries, see masterpieces of both Renaissance and Baroque periods mainly works by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci among others.

Major highlights of these museums include the Gallery of Maps- a hallway decorated with large and very detailed frescoes about Italy plus also having in its collection rooms known as the Raphael Rooms which contain colorful frescoes painted by Raphael together with his students.

The Sistine Chapel is a magnificent masterpiece, Michelangelo’s work.

With the help of your private guide, you will get an opportunity to completely savor the details of the ceiling inside this chapel- it depicts scenes from the Book of Genesis, including the most famous ‘Creation of Adam.’ Your guide can share interesting stories about Michelangelo’s artistic process and struggles that led to new doors being opened for the world of art because work was transformative.

Here, in an unhurried setting undisturbed by crowds typical to this place, one has time to take in detail at leisure.

Then go to St.

Peter's Basilica- known as the largest and one of the most important churches in the world.

This great basilica is a real example of Renaissance architecture genius put together by such notable figures as Michelangelo, and Bernini.

You will be welcomed by the impressive scale of its soaring dome and also by the exquisite beauty of Michelangelo's Pietà- a sculptural masterpiece showing the Virgin Mary holding Christ's dead body.

Your guide shares with you the deep religious meaning to be found within this basilica together with symbolic art and architecture that make it a vital spiritual landmark.

Depending on what you want, you may be allowed to see the Vatican Gardens which is a calm place with green land and pretty fountains or you might choose to go to the Vatican Necropolis an old burial ground that many believe holds St.

Peter’s remains offering a special view into early Christian history in Rome.

It ends with a walk to St.

Peter's Square which was made by Bernini so that people could see the great columns and look at the beauty of Vatican City from a special place.