Roma Trip Overview
Go at your own pace and linger as long as you like at the masterpieces. That’s the benefit of having a private guide just for you and your group at the Vatican! Use the fastest available skip the line access and let your guide handle all of the logistics – so you can focus on enjoying your experience of the Vatican Museums, and Sistine Chapel. Have a special request? Let your insider guide know so they can tailor the tour to your interests.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
Go at your own pace and linger as long as you like at the masterpieces. That’s the benefit of having a private guide just for you and your group at the Vatican! Use the fastest available skip the line access and let your guide handle all of the logistics – so you can focus on enjoying your experience of the Vatican Museums, and Sistine Chapel. Have a special request? Let your insider guide know so they can tailor the tour to your interests.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
Visit Vatican Museums
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Cupola di San Pietro, Piazza san Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Enjoy the perfect view of the pale blue dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, from a terrace just beyond the entrance of the Vatican Museums as your guide begins to prepare you for the wonders that lie ahead.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Together with a private guide, guests will discover the highlights of the extensive collection at the Vatican Museums. This private Vatican Tour also includes the fastest possible skip the line access.
Explore the Pinecone Courtyard and Belvedere Courtyard, along with the Hall of the Muses, Round Room, and Gallery of the Candelabra. Admire intricate tapestries from some of Raphael’s pupils in the Gallery of Tapestries, and historical maps by the Vatican cartographers in the Gallery of the Maps.
Do you have a special request or particular interest? Please let me know so I can tailor your experience. We’ll go at your pace and linger as long as you like at the masterpieces. That’s the benefit of having a private guide just for you and your group!
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Sphere within a Sphere, Pine Cone Courtyard Vatican Museums, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Located in the Pinecone Courtyard, Arnaldo Pomodoro’s “Sphere within a Sphere” is one of the museum’s more famous pieces of modern art on display. Different iterations of this sculpture are on display throughout the world. Give it a spin!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Cortile della Pigna, Vatican City Italy
One of many open-air courtyards located in the Vatican Museums, this is one of the first you will visit. Named for the giant bronze pinecone sculpture that dominates the space.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Gallery Of The Maps, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
One a sort of “war room” for the popes, allowing them to examine maps and plan the next move — this Gallery is a favorite of the Vatican Museums. If you have some Italian heritage, try and find your ancestral town … or just admire the exquisite, hand painted details.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Museo Pio Clementino, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
They call them the “Vatican Museums” because they are comprised of many smaller museums, or “wings”. The Pio Clementino Museum is the first you will come across on your private tour, and the most important – encompassing the largest number of highlights. Here you will find the Round Room with its giant bronze sculpture of Heracles. You will also find the Room of the Animals, with it’s impressive collection of lifelike sculptures of everything for turtles and horses to lions and bears. In the Octagonal Courtyard you will encounter the Laocoön, the very first statue of this collection as well as the the Apollo Belvedere. In the Room of the Muses you will find the famous, twisting, Belvedere Torso. Admire the 3D painted ceilings of the Candelabra Gallery.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Museos Vaticanos, 00101 Rome Italy
The tour concludes at the entrance of the Vatican Museums.
Stop At: Stanze di Raffaello, Viale Vaticano, Vatican City Italy
Famous painter Raffaello frescoed this series of rooms in the Vatican Museums. Discover them together with your private guide.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Your private visit of the Vatican Museums culminates at Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. No speaking is allowed in the Chapel, so you will enjoy free time on your own to take this masterpiece in.
Duration: 20 minutes
