Vatican City Trip Overview
Easy and FAST Skip the Line tickets for timed-entry to the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel. Choose from morning, afternoon or evening departure times. Meet your ticket coordinator at a designated meeting point near the Vatican Museums entrance to redeem your tickets and get useful advice. Then explore on your own, and stay as long as you like until closing time. No extra fees on the day! Looking for an expert guided experience? Choose a group tour upgrade.
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Duration: 3 to 8 hours
Starts: Vatican City, Italy
Trip Category: Sightseeing Tickets & Passes >> Museum Tickets & Passes
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What to Expect When Visiting Vatican City, Lazio, Italy
Easy and FAST Skip the Line tickets for timed-entry to the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel. Choose from morning, afternoon or evening departure times. Meet your ticket coordinator at a designated meeting point near the Vatican Museums entrance to redeem your tickets and get useful advice. Then explore on your own, and stay as long as you like until closing time. No extra fees on the day! Looking for an expert guided experience? Choose a group tour upgrade.
Visit: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Discover the heart of Vatican City: the Vatican Museums.
Duration: 3 hours
Visit: Sphere within a Sphere, Pine Cone Courtyard Vatican Museums, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Access Vatican Museums whit this Skip the line Ticket
Duration: 10 minutes
Visit: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Visit the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel on your own or with a guide (if option selected). Tickets provide skip the line access.
Duration: 3 hours
Visit: Cortile della Pigna, Vatican City Italy
Explore one of the Vatican’s many open air courtyards. This one is decorated with a giant bronze pinecone sculpture, giving the courtyard its name.
Duration: 20 minutes
Visit: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Michelangelo’s masterpiece, take time to admire the vaults.
Duration: 30 minutes
Visit: Museo Pio Clementino, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The Vatican Museums are divided into many smaller, unique museums. Among them, the Museo Pio Clementino is likely the most important, and the many highlights it contains cannot be missed! Stop at the Octagonal Courtyard for the Laocoonte and the Apollo Belvedere — or the Round Room for the giant marble bathtub patrolled by an enormous bronze statue of Heracles. Spot a sculpture of your favorite fauna at the Room of the Animals, or just marvel at the 3D painted vaults of the Gallery of the Candelabra.
Duration: 1 hour
Visit: Gallery Of The Maps, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
One of the most popular galleries of the Museums, make a stop here and try to spot the Italian cities you have travelled to, or your ancestor’s hometown. These hand-painted maps, dating to the late 1500’s, can also be admired for the exquisite attention to detail and embellishments. See if you can spot the nod to Christopher Columbus’ voyage across the Atlantic…
Duration: 20 minutes
Visit: Stanze di Raffaello, Viale Vaticano, Vatican City Italy
Admire Raphael’s Rooms — painted by the master himself and his pupils around the same time as the Sistine Chapel — and inspired and challenged by Michelangelo’s greatest masterpiece.
Duration: 20 minutes
Visit: Museos Vaticanos, 00101 Rome Italy
Stay inside as long as you like during official opening hours.
Duration: 3 hours