Skip The Line: Vatican Private Tour
Rome, Italy
Trip Type: Skip-the-Line Tours
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Enjoy the luxury, and undivided attention, of an experienced Private Guide. Skip the line and travel to the smallest Sovereign State and understand why it remains one of the world’s most influential and powerful states. Experience the history and splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and one of the world’s premier art collections, assembled over the centuries by generations of Popes and Cardinals. You will see works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini and many other great masters.
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Enjoy the luxury, and undivided attention, of an experienced Private Guide. Skip the line and travel to the smallest Sovereign State and understand why it remains one of the world’s most influential and powerful states. Experience the history and splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and one of the world’s premier art collections, assembled over the centuries by generations of Popes and Cardinals. You will see works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini and many other great masters.
Skip the line and travel to the world’s smallest Sovereign State and understand why it continues to be one of the world’s most influential and powerful states. Experience the history and magnificence of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and one of the largest art collections on earth, enriched over the centuries by generations of Popes.
Join our private tour and explore the corridors, courtyards and rooms where the Popes lived, studied, and ruled. Each mural, tapestry and sculpture is much more than a beautiful object. For every artwork there are hidden stories of glory, intrigue, power, betrayal, death and piety that our expert guides will be happy to share with you. Entering the Vatican Museum is not just entering a museum, it is a passage through 2000 years of history.
Once inside, our expert guide will escort you through Raphael’s Rooms, stopping to admire the famed Laocoön Group, which has remained in the same spot for half a millennium.
You will then make your way to Michelangelo’s painted ceiling and his Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Your Tour will end inside St. Peter’s Basilica, where you will see works such as Bernini’s bronze canopy known as the Baldacchino, and Michelangelo’s world-famous Pietà.
On this tour, among many other masterpieces, you will see:
· Sistine Chapel
· St. Peter's Basilica*
· Vatican Museums
· Bramante’s Belvedere Courtyard with the bronze Pinecone
· The Laocoön Group Sculpture
· The Hall of Tapestries
· The Hall of Maps
· Raphael’s Rooms
· The red Porphyry Sarcophagi made for Emperor Constantine’s family
· You’ll see many more splendid works that could not be included in this short list.
*on rare occasions St Peter's Basilica might be closed without prior notification
Skip the line and travel to the world’s smallest Sovereign State and understand why it continues to be one of the world’s most influential and powerful states. Experience the history and magnificence of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and one of the largest art collections on earth, enriched over the centuries by generations of Popes.
Join our private tour and explore the corridors, courtyards and rooms where the Popes lived, studied, and ruled. Each mural, tapestry and sculpture is much more than a beautiful object. For every artwork there are hidden stories of glory, intrigue, power, betrayal, death and piety that our expert guides will be happy to share with you. Entering the Vatican Museum is not just entering a museum, it is a passage through 2000 years of history.
Once inside, our expert guide will escort you through Raphael’s Rooms, stopping to admire the famed Laocoön Group, which has remained in the same spot for half a millennium.
You will then make your way to Michelangelo’s painted ceiling and his Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Your Tour will end inside St. Peter’s Basilica, where you will see works such as Bernini’s bronze canopy known as the Baldacchino, and Michelangelo’s world-famous Pietà.
On this tour, among many other masterpieces, you will see:
· Sistine Chapel
· St. Peter's Basilica*
· Vatican Museums
· Bramante’s Belvedere Courtyard with the bronze Pinecone
· The Laocoön Group Sculpture
· The Hall of Tapestries
· The Hall of Maps
· Raphael’s Rooms
· The red Porphyry Sarcophagi made for Emperor Constantine’s family
· You’ll see many more splendid works that could not be included in this short list.
*on rare occasions St Peter's Basilica might be closed without prior notification
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