Vatican: Museums and Sistine Chapel Guided Tour

About this activity

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  • time-forward_15911935 Duration

    3 hours
  • queue-alt_15044408 Skip the ticket line

    1
  • guide_13794414 Live tour guide

    English

Highlights

  • Enjoy a guided tour for Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
  • Benefit from the knowledge of a guide and learn about the Vatican's long history
  • Uncover the secrets hidden within the Sistine Chapel’s centuries-old frescoes
  • Experience standing in the Sistine Chapel admiring Michelangelo's Judgment Day
  • Take in the impressive marble, ceilings, and mosaics in St Peter's Basilica

Your experience

Enhance your stay in Rome by taking a guided tour of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel.

Your host will regale you with wonderful tales of the history of these colossal edifices – leaving you rich in content.

Your meeting place for the start of the tour will be outside the Vatican Museums.

The guide will help you to find your way into the building.

As you look around and wend your way through those museums, let your guide breathe life into each and every piece of art that you see.

Get to know the Rotunda, the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Maps.

Visit such rooms as by Raffaello in the Borgia Apartment and the Pinacoteca the Gallery of Maps the Pinecone Courtyard and more.

Botticelli Ghirlandaio Pinturicchio Perugino and many others will be exhibited.

Finally, they go into the chapel to take a look at the sculpture by Michelangelo on the ceiling.

Look at something more distinctly Renaissance in the form of the church, now blown into the architectural shape of a dome that’s obviously dominates Rome’s skyline; head to St.

Peter’s Basilica.

What's Included
  • Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel entry ticket
  • Direct entrance from Museums to St. Peter's Basilica (the entrance into the Basilica is free).
  • Guided tour
  • Sistine Chapel Book
  • Headsets (if required)
What's Excluded
  • Entrance to the Dome
  • Guided Tour of St. Peter's Basilica
  • Pick up and drop off
  • Drink and food

To Remember

What to bring

  • Passport or ID card

Not allowed

  • Luggage or large bags
  • Short skirts
  • Sleeveless shirts

Know before you go

  • Pets and bulky bags are not allowed
  • All visitors are required to pass through security check