Start your Vatican Tour with an exclusive ealy access, avoiding the crowds and the heat! Admire all the masterpieces, including the outstanding Roman statues which inspired Michelangelo: the celebrated Laocoon Group and the powerful Belvedere Torso. Walk through the Gallery of Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps, full of statues, frescoes and mosaics and get inside the spectacular, world famous Sistine Chapel, entirely covered with the most celebrated Michelangelo’s frescoes: the Ceiling and the Last Judgement! Then take advantage of the exclusive shortcut from the Sistine to St. Peter's, the largest church in the world, to admire the Pietà, by Michelangelo, the Baldaquin by Bernini and much mor...
Highlights
3 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
3 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Professional licensed Official guide of the Vatican Museums
Hotel pickup (only with the "Luxury Option")
St. Peter's Basilica exclusive shortcut entrance fee and headsets
"Skip-the-Line" ticket to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
Gratuities
Hotel drop-off
Meeting Points
Departure
Tmark Hotel Vaticano
You will meet your licensed tour guide at the Vatican Museums
Return
Saint Peter's Square
If you need your guide will point the closer Taxi Stop
Early Morning Vatican PRIVATE Tour
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Start your Vatican Tour with an exclusive ealy access, avoiding the crowds and the heat! Admire all the masterpieces, including the outstanding Roman statues which inspired Michelangelo: the celebrated Laocoon Group and the powerful Belvedere Torso. Walk through the Gallery of Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps, full of statues, frescoes and mosaics and get inside the spectacular, world famous Sistine Chapel, entirely covered with the most celebrated Michelangelo’s frescoes: the Ceiling and the Last Judgement! Then take advantage of the exclusive shortcut from the Sistine to St. Peter's, the largest church in the world, to admire the Pietà, by Michelangelo, the Baldaquin by Bernini and much mor...
Highlights
3 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
3 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Professional licensed Official guide of the Vatican Museums
Hotel pickup (only with the "Luxury Option")
St. Peter's Basilica exclusive shortcut entrance fee and headsets
"Skip-the-Line" ticket to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
Gratuities
Hotel drop-off
Meeting Points
Departure
Tmark Hotel Vaticano
You will meet your licensed tour guide at the Vatican Museums
Return
Saint Peter's Square
If you need your guide will point the closer Taxi Stop
Itinerary
1
Vatican Museums
Be one of the first to enter the Vatican Museums as soon as they open the doors of one of the most famous museums in the world!
1 hour and 40 minutes
2
Cortile della Pigna
The courtyard was originally part of the Cortile del Belvedere, designed by Donato Bramante to connect the palace of Pope Innocent VIII with the Sistine Chapel. When Bramante died, architect Pirro Ligorio finished the project and added the wall and niche to close the courtyard.
15 minutes
3
Laocoön
The Octagonal Court used to be known as the Cortile delle Statue. It was home to the first nucleus of antique classical statues in the pontifical collections when Pope Julius II della Rovere (1503-1513) displayed his own collection of antique sculpture. Among them the world famous Laocoön group.
15 minutes
4
Galleria Delle Carte Geografiche
The longest gallery in the Vatican Museums, hosting the frescoed maps of all the regions of Italy, from south to north, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in 1580.
30 minutes
5
St. Peter's Basilica
Reach the largest church in the world thanks to the exclusive shortcut, without waiting in line.
20 minutes
6
La Pieta
Michelangelo's masterpiece, made by the great Florentine artist when he was just 21 years old, represents the Virgin Mary holding in her arms the body of Jesus.
10 minutes
7
Vatican Grottoes
The crypt of the basilica, where Popes are buried since the foundation, including the first Pope, St. Peter, the prince of the Apostles.
