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This 3 hour Vatican Tour is led by an expert guide who will share stories you won’t hear anywhere else! Visit the highlights of the Vatican Museums in small, exclusive groups limited to 10 people or less. Skip-the-Line no-wait access is included and is the fastest possible way to enter the Museums.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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This 3 hour Vatican Tour is led by an expert guide who will share stories you won’t hear anywhere else! Visit the highlights of the Vatican Museums in small, exclusive groups limited to 10 people or less. Skip-the-Line no-wait access is included and is the fastest possible way to enter the Museums.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
A typical itinerary inside the Vatican Museums includes the Pavilion of the Carriages, home to everything from centuries old horse-drawn carriages to vintage and modern cars really used by Popes past and present. You’ll visit the Pinecone Courtyard, the Hall of the Maps (the “Oval Office” of the Pope centuries ago), the Gallery of the Tapestries, the Pinacoteca, Belvedere Courtyard, Room of the Muses, the Round Room and Candelabra Gallery.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Cortile della Pigna, Vatican City Italy
This courtyard gets its name from the enormous bronze Pinecone sculpture that dominates it.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Sphere within a Sphere, Pine Cone Courtyard Vatican Museums, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The Vatican Museums contains some modern art as well, including this famous sculpture: Sphere within a Sphere. Variations of this sculpture can be found in many settings around the world.
Stop At: Museo Pio Clementino, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The most famous wing of the Vatican Museums, the Pio Clementino museum contains much of the Museum’s most important highlights. Your guide will take you through the Room of the Animals, where you can spot the life-like statues of fauna from around the world. Head to the Octagonal Courtyard where a small fountain trickles in the background of famous statues like the Laocoonte and Apollo Belvedere. Don’t forget to look at the Candelabra Gallery — master painters decorated these ceilings to create the illusion of a 3D effect centuries ago!
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Gallery Of The Maps, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Head with your guide to the Gallery of the Maps — and get a perspective of the world how it was five centuries ago. These exquisitely detailed, hand-painted giant maps are a favorite of the Vatican Museums. See if you can find the Italian cities you have visited, or spot the nod to Christopher Columbus’ journey to the Americas.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Stanze di Raffaello, Viale Vaticano, Vatican City Italy
Raphael painted these rooms with incredible frescoes, originally meant for the private rooms of Pope Julius II.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
No guides are able to speak inside the Sistine Chapel. However, your guide will prepare you in advance for your free time inside so you’ll know what to look for.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Museos Vaticanos, 00101 Rome Italy
Your visit ends close to where it began, after the spiral staircase at the entrance to the Vatican Museums.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
Visit to Vatican Museums – Vatican City
Duration: 3 hours
