Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tour

See the main sights of Vatican City in a 3-hour tour with a guide for the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St.

Peter’s Basilica.

Start by meeting your guide outside the Vatican Muse-ums and get an intro to some galleries with classical sculptures tapestries and paintings.

Travel through time from Ancient Greece to Ancient Rome and see maps made by ancient cartographers.

Go into private rooms once used by popes and see works by Raffaello.

Proceed to the Sistine Chapel and there see the miraculous frescoes of Michelangelo Buonarroti, including his famous ceiling painting, “The Last Judgment.” After this, enter St.

Peter's Basilica and visit the biggest church in the Catholic faith.

Built about 320 years after death of Christ by Emperor Constantine over apostle Peter's tomb, place underwent total redesign nearly 200 years later by famous artists like Bramante, Michelangelo, and Bernini making it spiritual center for Christian world.

End your visit in St.

Peter's Square see the great colonnades made by Bernini and look up at the large dome of St. Peter's.