Enjoy a complete 4 hour private tour experience in one of the most important art collection in the world and the masterpieces of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Meet our guide at the reception of your centrally located hotel or apartment and go with our driver to the Vatican Museums in a private comfortable vehicle. The tour begins at the Vatican Museums, with our skip the line ticket you will be quickly inside its immense collection built up by the Popes throughout the centuries. On top of this tour experience, you will visit the most famous rooms of the Museums, from the Pinecone Courtyard to the Gallery of Tapestries, the Gallery of the Maps and the Gallery of the Candelabra. But our extended itinerary include salso a full immersion to the Raphael Rooms, a real icon of art which can not be missed!
The highlight of our visit is undoubetely the Sistine Chapel. Our expert guide will offer eye-opening insight this magnificent Michelangelo’s masterpieces. Before entering the Sistine Chapel, your guide will have told you all the stories behind the creation of these iconic frescoes as well as what they mean. When you enter, you will then be able to appreciate the full majesty of the room, spotting the little details and quirks that most visitors miss.
From the Museum you will exit directly into St Peter’s Basilica, the most important Christian Church in the world, heart of the Catholic religion, where you will admire, among others, Michelangelo’s masterpiece La Pietà and the impressive Baldachin Altar by Bernini.
Tour ends in the suggestive St Peter’s Square, dominated by Michelangelo’s imposing Cupola and surrounded by the famous Bernini’s double Colonnade. You can also ask your guide to stay inside the Basilica to continue the visit on your own and take advantage of the opportunity to buy the ticket to climb the imposing Basilica’s dome if there is not too much line.