Roma Trip Overview
Explore one of the most visited places in Rome, Vatican City without being pushed around by crowds. Start your day at the wealthiest collections of artworks and enter with a professional guide before regular opening hours. See some famous contemporary artworks located inside the Vatican Museums. Hear interesting stories and facts related to the artworks and artists who have prepared them. Visit the gorgeous Sistine Chapel before regular travellers and gaze at the gorgeous ceiling, an uncomparable work of famous Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Finally receive a guided exploration of the largest Catholic church in the world St. Peter’s Basilica and walk around the jewels situated inside.
• Beat the crowds and enter the Vatican City before opening schedule
• Be the first to visit the Sistine Chapel in the morning
• No Waiting Entry to Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter’s
• Small-group tour with headsets for clear narrations
• History and art-centric tour lead by a Lazio certified guide
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
Explore one of the most visited places in Rome, Vatican City without being pushed around by crowds. Start your day at the wealthiest collections of artworks and enter with a professional guide before regular opening hours. See some famous contemporary artworks located inside the Vatican Museums. Hear interesting stories and facts related to the artworks and artists who have prepared them. Visit the gorgeous Sistine Chapel before regular travellers and gaze at the gorgeous ceiling, an uncomparable work of famous Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Finally receive a guided exploration of the largest Catholic church in the world St. Peter’s Basilica and walk around the jewels situated inside.
• Beat the crowds and enter the Vatican City before opening schedule
• Be the first to visit the Sistine Chapel in the morning
• No Waiting Entry to Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter’s
• Small-group tour with headsets for clear narrations
• History and art-centric tour lead by a Lazio certified guide
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
Begin the tour of astonishing Papal State before all Regular Tourists! Meet your guide after reaching the given meeting point at 7:30 AM and enter the Museums using exclusive access reserved for special groups. You may face short delays to pass the security checks during the busiest months in Summer. Head straight to the Vatican Museums to see its enormous collection followed by breathtaking Sistine Chapel. And explore the massive St. Peter’s Basilica with a professional guide before ending your Vatican City tour at St. Peter’s Square.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
“Enter the Vatican Museums at a crowd-free state to wander around the enormous collections. See the main galleries of the Vatican including the Gallery of the Tapestries, Gallery of the Candelabra, and the most popular Gallery of the Maps. Commissioned under several Popes, these maps are showing the geography of unified Italian peninsula since the 15th century.
Explore the multiple frescoed rooms connected to the Vatican Museums. These rooms were designed and painted by famous Renaissance artist Raphael. Along with other masterpieces, see his most famous art ‘The School of Athens’. This painting displays all the greatest philosophers, mathematicians and scientists of that time in one frame including Raphael himself.
Walk around arts that illustrate the lives of saints, the resurrection of Christ along with some exceptional stories and characters from the time of Pope Alexander VI and the Borgia family. Located on the bright and scenic frescoes on the upper walls and ceilings inside the Borgia Apartments and painted by Italian painter Pinturicchio. After your expedition of the world’s most extensive collection of artworks, the guide will lead you to explore other parts of the world’s smallest country, Vatican City.”
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Enter the Sistine Chapel before it opens for its daily visitors. This is one of the main attractions of enjoying this tour. Because without crowds Sistine Chapel offers a serene and peaceful environment to gaze at its exceptionally beautiful frescoes, painted on the ceiling by Michelangelo. See some of his famous works like “The Last Judgment” and “Creation of Adam”, etc. It is forbidden to speak inside Sistine Chapel. So your guide will provide clear instructions on how the tour will be operated inside before you enter the meeting place of Cardinals, where new Popes are selected.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Skip the lines to enter the Vatican’s most magnificent centrepiece, St. Peter’s Basilica. To do so, you will use a side entry only available to guided tours, instead of waiting in line at the St. Peter’s Square. Wander around the masterpieces situated inside the largest Catholic Church in the world. Admire breathtaking artworks including Baldachino, La Pieta and St. Peter’s statue. If you are willing to stay longer inside St. Peter’s Basilica for some more time after your tour ends. Then do not go the Piazza with your guide to take pictures.
Duration: 40 minutes
