Rome Trip Overview
Enjoy a private tour at the stunning Vatican Museums with an expert, entertaining and knowledgeable private guide through a maze of artwork and interesting stories and anecdotes.
Skip the line for fast-track entry to the world famous Vatican Museums complex, made up of galleries with an impressive number of artwork and masterpieces.
During your visit you will have the chance to see one of the wolrd’s finest collections of sculptures, carvings, frescoes and paintings.
Your expert tour guide will be your story-teller, focusing your attention on the most important masterpieces and making this experience easy and unforgettable.
Stroll through the most interesting rooms such as the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Maps. Be stunned by Michelangelo’s masterpiece inside the Sistine Chapel.
At the end enter the beautiful St. Peter’s Church, where the famous Baldachin by Bernini is. You will have also the opportunity to admire the incredible sculpture of “La Pietà” by Michelangelo.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Enjoy a private tour at the stunning Vatican Museums with an expert, entertaining and knowledgeable private guide through a maze of artwork and interesting stories and anecdotes.
Skip the line for fast-track entry to the world famous Vatican Museums complex, made up of galleries with an impressive number of artwork and masterpieces.
During your visit you will have the chance to see one of the wolrd’s finest collections of sculptures, carvings, frescoes and paintings.
Your expert tour guide will be your story-teller, focusing your attention on the most important masterpieces and making this experience easy and unforgettable.
Stroll through the most interesting rooms such as the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Maps. Be stunned by Michelangelo’s masterpiece inside the Sistine Chapel.
At the end enter the beautiful St. Peter’s Church, where the famous Baldachin by Bernini is. You will have also the opportunity to admire the incredible sculpture of “La Pietà” by Michelangelo.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
With this Tour, we get you inside the Museums. we will visit together the Vatican Museum Galleries and halls
Duration: 1 hour 30 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.
The Pietà (1498–1499) is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City.
Duration: 45 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.
Pass By: 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.
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
