Vatican Museums Private Tour

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3 hours (approximately)
Offered in: English

The only museum that includes others museums. Inside you will find in fact: the Vatican Art Gallery, the Gregorian Egyptian Museum and the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Historical Museum, Gallery of Candelabra and Gallery of Maps. These are only some examples of its incredible variety. If you want to access one of the places that most represents Rome's art patrimony, you can't absolutely miss this tour.
Walking tour locations: Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. A great symbol of Catholic church and of Italy in itself. Well-known around the globe, it attracts every day millions of visitors. Its Museums are the most eminent representation of the art collections accumulated by all the popes through the centuries. The splendor of the Vatican Museums is due to its limitless artistic beauty without equals in the world. It would take a whole day to admire and appreciate every detail of all its works of art: paintings, frescoes, statues, tapestries that give testimony of our history.

What's Included

Official tour guide for 3 hours
Vatican Museums Tickets Included
Transfer by taxi from your location to the Vatican museums

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

You will meet your tour guide in Viale Vaticano 100 just outside the Cafe' Vaticano Your Tour Guide will have a signboard with your last name printed on it.

End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 3 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Vatican Museums

    Vatican Museums tour with your own Tour Guide. The Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling and altar wall decorated by Michelangelo, and the Stanze by Raphael (decorated by Raphael) are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums.

    1 hour • Admission ticket included
  • 2
    Sistine Chapel

    The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, in Vatican City and the official residence of the pope. Originally known as the Cappella Magna ('Great Chapel'), the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity . Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescoes that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, both by Michelangelo.

    1 hour • Admission ticket included
  • 3

    The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 4
    St. Peter's Square

    Saint Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus whom Catholics consider the first Pope.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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