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Be picked up at your hotel and enjoy an exclusive 3-hour St Peter’s Basilica, Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums skip the line private tour. Explore the wonderful complex of rooms, artwork and history with Tom, a local licensed guide, who will bring the ancient collections to life. Use the fast access to explore the Gallery of the Maps and Raphael’s Rooms; admire breath-taking Sistine Chapel with ‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo’; end your tour in the St Peter’s Basilica, where the famous Pietà is preserved.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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Be picked up at your hotel and enjoy an exclusive 3-hour St Peter’s Basilica, Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums skip the line private tour. Explore the wonderful complex of rooms, artwork and history with Tom, a local licensed guide, who will bring the ancient collections to life. Use the fast access to explore the Gallery of the Maps and Raphael’s Rooms; admire breath-taking Sistine Chapel with ‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo’; end your tour in the St Peter’s Basilica, where the famous Pietà is preserved.
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Meet your guide Tommaso at your central located hotel and head to the smallest country of the world, Vatican City.
Use the fast access passageway, and ready to explore the wonderful collections of the Vatican Museums.
Stroll through the Gallery of the Maps and Gallery of Tapestries as you tune in to stories of Vatican interest. Look at curios, for example, timeworn yet captivating Italian maps, the figures and candelabras of the Gallery of Candelabras. Stop for photographs before the Pigna statue in the Pinecone Courtyard, composed by Donato Bramante. Raphael’s Rooms are a progression of displays that feature the ability of the commended Renaissance craftsman himself.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Go through the rooms, and after that progression inside the Sistine Chapel — the pope’s close to home place of love and a feature of any Vatican trip. Remain underneath Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, which shrouds the roof, and respect The Last Judgment, his vivid painting that embellishes a divider.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: St. Peter’s Square, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Look at the Baldacchino by Bernini, and after that say farewell to your guide in St Peter’s Square, where you can see the Pope’s Palace and the colorful Swiss Guards.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
After your Sistine Chapel visit, keep on St Peter’s Basilica, the representative heart of the Catholic church. Find out about its history and see more Vatican craftsmanship including Michelangelo’s La Pietà, which was etched when the maestro was just 24 years of age.
Duration: 30 minutes
