Rome Trip Overview
Explore Vatican Gardens and Sistine Chapel for 3.5-hours with a highly esteemed guide skipping the upper Galleries with hotel pickup included. Admire irreplaceable artwork in the Pope’s Gardens as you walk through the meandering pathways to witness the fountains, colorful flowers and Renaissance architecture. For a more personalized experience, access the breathtaking Sistine Chapel through a secret path, with a traveler limit of 10 people. Be stunned by the frescoes painted by Michelangelo and the amazing team of Italian Renaissance Artists. A shortcut will lead you to St. Peter’s Basilica, where you will be able to see the statue of La Pietà and the great Baldacchino by Bernini.
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Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Rome, Lazio, Italy
Explore Vatican Gardens and Sistine Chapel for 3.5-hours with a highly esteemed guide skipping the upper Galleries with hotel pickup included. Admire irreplaceable artwork in the Pope’s Gardens as you walk through the meandering pathways to witness the fountains, colorful flowers and Renaissance architecture. For a more personalized experience, access the breathtaking Sistine Chapel through a secret path, with a traveler limit of 10 people. Be stunned by the frescoes painted by Michelangelo and the amazing team of Italian Renaissance Artists. A shortcut will lead you to St. Peter’s Basilica, where you will be able to see the statue of La Pietà and the great Baldacchino by Bernini.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Gardens, Viale Vaticano presso Musei Vaticani, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Inside the smallest State in the world and its “green heart”, amid monuments, historical fountains and rare botanical treasures
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
You will enter directly to the Sistine Chapel with a special access through the Room of the Aldobrandini Wedding, previously known as the Room of Samson on account of the ceiling frescoes by Guido Reni narrating the Stories of Samson. This room is usually close to the public.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, 00120, Vatican City
The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (pontiff from 1471 to 1484) who had the old Cappella Magna restored between 1477 and 1480. It is known throughout the world both for being the place where the conclave and other official ceremonies of the Pope are held (in the past also some papal coronations), and for being decorated with one of the most famous and celebrated works of art of artistic civilization the frescoes by Michelangelo
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Enjoy the breathtaking Saint Peter’s Basilica, shrine of Christianity and Art. You will marvel at the Priceless Pietà, by Michelangelo, and stop by the venerable tomb of Saint John Paul II & Pope Karol Wojtyla.
Duration: 50 minutes
Pass By: La Pieta, Chapel of the Pieta Basilica Di San Pietro, Vatican City Italy
The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City.
It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome.
The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal’s funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
Stop At: St. Peter’s Square, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
This monumental elliptical space, enclosed by 284 Doric columns four rows deep (196m wide and 148m long), is the masterpiece of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who laid it out during the pontificates of Alexander VII and of Clement IX.
Duration: 10 minutes
