Guide tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica
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Overview
Forget the queues to buy tickets to visit the most emblematic places in the Vatican: the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. Your booking includes a guided tour of the three monuments where you can learn about the art and architecture of the place.
- See the most important sights of the Vatican such as the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.
- An expert guide will accompany you for the approximately 2.5 hours tour.
- The tour includes priority access tickets to avoid queuing at the ticket office.
What’s included
- Entrance to the Vatican Museums
- Entrance to the Sistine Chapel
- Entrance to St. Peter's Basilica
- Visit with an expert guide
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What to expect
Avoid the long queues and enjoy getting to know the most emblematic places of the Vatican such asthe museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. Thanks to this tour, which lasts about two and a half hours, you will be able to discover some of the riches, both in terms of heritage and architecture, that the smallest state in the world has to offer: the Vatican.
The expert guide will accompany you throughout the tour in a group of around 25 people. If you wish, you can request headphones so that you can listen to all the explanations clearly and not miss any detail.
This experience includes the entrance to the Vatican Museums where famous paintings by Italian Renaissance artists, such as Caravaggio and Raphael, are housed. The interior of the Sistine Chapel, site of ecclesiastical conclave, will allow you to admire The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo's most iconic painting.
Finally, you can enter St. Peter's Basilica, where you can admire Michelangelo's Pietà and Bernini's altar. In the imposing church, the seat of Catholicism in the world, you will also find the tombs of the popes.