Skip the Line Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel St Peter's Basilica elite tour
Rome, Italy
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Trip Type: Skip-the-Line Tours
Duration: 3 hours
See the famous sites in Vatican City on a small group, personalized 3.5-hour tour. Your expert guide will take you through the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica on an informative journey focusing on art history and archaeology.
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See the famous sites in Vatican City on a small group, personalized 3.5-hour tour. Your expert guide will take you through the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica on an informative journey focusing on art history and archaeology.
With 2000 rooms filled with the most extensive collection of art in the world you will be led by an expert guide along the history of this utstanding Museum. You will marvel at the sight of the Sistine Chapel, one of the most famous and visited sites in the world and the most emblematic example of papal patronage during the Renaissance period. Thanks to the genius of Michelangelo, you will have an unforgettable experience.
This great artist created the masterpiece painting on the ceiling, The Creation of Adam, as well as the incomparable Last Judgement, on the altar wall. Along the tour our guide will show you more art jewels such as the Pio Clementino halls with the Laocoon and Apollo Belvedere, the Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps Galleries. We will then leave the Vatican Museum and proceed Saint Peter’s Basilica to admire, among others, the world famous sculpture La Pietà by Michelangelo and the extremely impressive Baldachin Altar by Bernini. The tour ends in St. Peter’s Square with a final explanation of the famous double Colonnade by Bernini.
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