Exclusive Private Tour: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, Basilica

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Itinerary

1. Your tour will start after having met your guide who will escort you for all the 3 hours of your private tour. You will first enter the Vatican Museums and Upper Galleries, including the Maps, Tapestries, and Candelabra ones. The galleries connect the north section of the Vatican Palace with the Sistine Chapel. Many Roman statues discovered during the excavations and many spectacular painted rooms are conserved in the rooms.

   1 hAdmission included

2. While Raphael was painting the Room of the Signatura, Michelangelo was working on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. The two artists were rivals but Raphael recognized Michelangelo’s talent in his “School of Athens”. Here you will admire the Parnassus and the Dispute over the Sacrament.

   20 minAdmission included

3. After having visited the beautiful Raphael Rooms, you will approach the Borgia apartment, which was painted by Pinturicchio and commissioned by the Spanish Pope Alexander VI Borgia. These rooms are inside the oldest section of the Apostolic Palace. You will visit its main rooms, which preserve also part of the artworks from modern and contemporary art.

   20 minAdmission included

4. Then, you will arrive in the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries, which had been created thanks to the several donations in honor of Pope Paul VI: during a special Speech inside the Sistine Chapel he called back to the Church modern and contemporary artists in order to recreate a link between art and church. Many donations arrived from the United States and other countries. Among the many masterpieces, you will admire Matisse’s, Chagall’s, Dalì’s, and Bacon’s works.

   20 minAdmission included

5. After having visited the Vatican Museums, you will enter the Sistine Chapel, where you will admire Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with the Frescoes painted in the 1500s for the Pope Julius II and Paul III. Michelangelo first painted the Ceiling where he represented The Creation of the World and stories of Noah’s life. When he was 61 years old Michelangelo painted The Last Judgement on the wall behind the altar.

   30 minAdmission included

6. The access to the Basilica is included only if option selected

   15 minAdmission included

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How it compares in Rome

• Its from-price is 132% above the median of the 8352 experiences we list in Rome.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 4032 of 8352.

About Rome

Rome layers nearly three thousand years of history into one walkable city, from the Colosseum and Forum to Baroque piazzas and Vatican art.

Ancient Rome is still in plain sight. The Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill sit together at the city's heart, the Pantheon still stands with its open oculus, and fragments of temples and aqueducts turn up between apartment blocks. Across the Tiber, Vatican City holds St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Top-ranked sights in Rome: Colosseum, Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel.

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