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Vatican City: the Treasures Box

Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter Basilica and Square: the widest art collection in the world, discover its major masterpieces.

Probably it doesn’t exist on earth a museum as amazing as the Vatican Museums. One of the most important Art collection in the world for its richness and variety! During the visit you can see statues and objects that will recount of the ancient Greece and Rome but also Baroque and Renaissance arazzi together with frescoes and paintings, bas-relief and trompe l’Oeil. All of these masterpieces are displayed in long galleries with richly decorated ceilings and pavements, courtyards and staircases twist and turn inside the Popes’ Palace. The Museum’s heart is Michelangelo genius’ masterwork: the Sistine Chapel. Its beauty, its magnificence and its timeless charm does not show its age – 500 hundreds years old – and amazes now as then. At the conclusion of the Vatican Museums visit you will access Saint Peter’s Basilica, the biggest church in the world! A real marble jewel filled with artworks, the deserved end for such fascinating tour.

Details

SKIP THE LINE. Our tours include the skip the line tickets.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese.
KIDS FRIENDLY. The children are welcome. Please write me if there are kids in your family group.
DISABLE FRIENDLY. The tour is disabled friendly. Please contact me if you need a wheelchair.
 DRESS CODE: Low cut or sleeveless clothing, shorts, miniskirts and hats are not allowed. Only small bags/backpacks are permitted (size 40x35x15).

  • Destination

  • Meeting point

    at the entrance of Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, on the white staircase or at your accommodation (on request)
  • Start Time

    From 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
  • Duration

    3 hours
  • Price

    € 250,00 base price + € 40,00 / per person (admission fee and skip the line ticket for each sites) + € 20,00 per person under 18 (admission fee and skip the line ticket for each sites)
  • Included

    Admission Tickets
    Guiding Services
    Private Tour
    Skip the line Tickets
  • Not Included

    Food and drinks
    Personal Expenses
    Private driver
    Private luxury car
    Public Transportation Tickets
    Souvenirs
    Taxi
1

Vatican Museums:

  • Courtyard Pigna
  • Museo Chiaramonti
  • Courtyard Ottagono
  • Room of Animals
  • Room of Muses
  • Room Rotonda
  • Gallery of Candelabra
  • Gallery of Tapestry
  • Gallery of Maps
2

Sistine Chapel

3

St. Peter Basilica

4

St. Peter Square

Tour Location

Meeting Point Options:

  1. at the entrance of Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, on the white staircase.
  2. at your accommodation (on request): the pick up from your hotel/b&b is available if it is in the centre of Rome and the cost of the taxi is on you.
Meeting Point Option 1

My family and I headed to Italy for a once in a lifetime trip and Romebylocals and their guide was nothing short of Fabulous for our first tour in Rome to the Vatican and Catacombs, Pablo was so knowledgeable and pleasant to spend time with that he truly made the our tour more enjoyable then we ever could have imagined.  If you are looking for a great local tour company we highly recommend Romebylocals, you cannot go wrong!  Thanks!  The DeStefano Family

Madeline D.

  Everyone in our family, adults and children alike, really enjoyed our two tours with Romebylocals.  Chiara brought the Coliseum and Forum to life for us all, with interesting pictures to show us what each area used to look like. Stephania gave us a great tour of the Vatican, pointing out things we would definitely have missed otherwise. Highly recommend.

Veronica R.

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