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A beautiful and amazing experience to visit and enjoy an evening tour to the Vatican Museums one of the world’s largest museum complexes, containing 2,000 rooms and over 65,000 works of art that stretch for nearly 9 miles (15 km) inside the Vatican City. The tour starts from your hotel, skip the long line with your small group of no more than 12 people. Stroll through the corridors to view the world’s largest private art collection, once intended exclusively for the Pope. Through the Raphael’s Rooms, four interconnecting chambers adorned with paintings realized by Raphael and his pupils, you will reach the beautiful breathtaking Sistine Chapel, the holy chapel where the Pope is elected and where the conclave is organized, a very special occasion to walk through this sacred Vatican site to admire Michelangelo’s astounding frescoes.
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Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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A beautiful and amazing experience to visit and enjoy an evening tour to the Vatican Museums one of the world’s largest museum complexes, containing 2,000 rooms and over 65,000 works of art that stretch for nearly 9 miles (15 km) inside the Vatican City. The tour starts from your hotel, skip the long line with your small group of no more than 12 people. Stroll through the corridors to view the world’s largest private art collection, once intended exclusively for the Pope. Through the Raphael’s Rooms, four interconnecting chambers adorned with paintings realized by Raphael and his pupils, you will reach the beautiful breathtaking Sistine Chapel, the holy chapel where the Pope is elected and where the conclave is organized, a very special occasion to walk through this sacred Vatican site to admire Michelangelo’s astounding frescoes.
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Stop At: Rome, Rome, Lazio
Pick up from your hotel
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
One of the world largest museum complexes 2,000 rooms and over 65.000 works of art. The Vatican Museums contain masterpieces of painting, sculpture and other works of art collected by the popes through the centuries. The Museums include several monumental works of art, such as the Sistine Chapel, the Chapel of Beato Angelico, the Raphael Rooms and Loggia and the Borgia Apartment.
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
The Sistine Chapel is a large chapel in the Vatican Palace, the place in Italy where the Pope lives. The Chapel was built between 1473 and 1481 by Giovanni dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV.
The Sistine Chapel is the Pope’s own chapel. It is used for important Masses and ceremonies. When a pope dies, the College of Cardinals meet in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope.
The Sistine Chapel is famous for its fresco paintings by the Renaissance painter Michelangelo.
At the end of your tour the driver will be waiting for you to the Drop off -return to the hotel
Duration: 30 minutes
