Rome Trip Overview
Start your 5 hours exclusive tour with a nice buffet breakfast in the scenographic and famous Pinecone Courtyard and enjoy early access to the Galleries and the Sistine Chapel where you’ll have the chance to admire the great masterpieces from the main artists of all the times far from the crowds.
Transfers to and from the site included.
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Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Rome, Lazio, Italy
Start your 5 hours exclusive tour with a nice buffet breakfast in the scenographic and famous Pinecone Courtyard and enjoy early access to the Galleries and the Sistine Chapel where you’ll have the chance to admire the great masterpieces from the main artists of all the times far from the crowds.
Transfers to and from the site included.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Before the museum opens to the public, enjoy a buffet breakfast in the Pinecone Courtyard. See the museum’s masterpieces including statues, paintings, and tapestries outside the congestion of regular opening hours
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
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: 1 hour
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: 15 minutes
