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Vatican and Sistine Chapel Experience eBook

4.333 reviewsVatican Museums

  • 2h 50m
  • Free cancellation up to 24h before
  • 2 languages
  • Instant confirmation

Highlights

Skip the line and discover the wonders of Vatican City on this unforgettable guided tour through one of the world’s most iconic cultural and religious landmarks. Explore the breathtaking Vatican Museums and admire masterpieces by legendary artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, while learning about their historical and artistic significance from an expert guide specialized in Vatican art and culture. The highlight of the experience is a visit to the stunning Sistine Chapel, where you can admire Michelangelo’s world-famous ceiling frescoes and The Last Judgment. To make your visit even more complete, this experience also includes a complimentary Vatican & Sistine Chapel eBook, packed with travel tips, historical insights, must-see highlights, and practical information to help you make the most of your time in Vatican City.

Inclusions

What's included

  • Skip-the-line priority ticket to quickly enter the Vatican Museums
  • Entrance - Sistine Chapel
  • Entrance - Vatican Museums
  • Guide Ebook
  • Online support at the time of boarding the tour
  • Online Consultant who will send you boarding information

What's not

  • Hotel pick up and drop off
  • Food and beverages
  • Tips

Itinerary

  1. The Vatican Museums are the national museum of the Vatican City, in Rome. Founded by Pope Julius II in the 16th century, they occupy a large part of the vast courtyard of the Belvedere and are one of the largest art collections in the world, since they display the enormous collection of works of art accumulated over the centuries by the popes: the Sistine Chapel and the papal apartments frescoed by Michelangelo and Raphael are part of the works that visitors can admire on their journey. Although the museums are located entirely in Vatican territory, their entrance is in Italian territory, in viale Vaticano 6 in Rome.

    2 hAdmission included

  2. Visit the marvelous Sistine Chapel and admire Michelangelo's frescoes, famous all over the world and considered a cornerstone of Western art. The Sistine Chapel (in Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum), dedicated to Mary Assumed into Heaven, is the main chapel of the apostolic palace, as well as one of the most famous cultural and artistic treasures of the Vatican City, inserted in the itinerary of the Vatican Museums. It was built between about 1475 and 1481, at the time of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere, from which it took its name. It is known throughout the world both for being the place where the conclave and other official ceremonies of the pope are held (in the past also some papal coronations), and for being decorated with some of the best known and most celebrated works of art in the artistic civilization worldwide, among which the famous frescoes by Michelangelo stand out.

    20 minAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

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Know before you go

Meeting point
When you will arrive, please enter in the office
Pickup
Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
Ticket type
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group size
Up to 20 travellers
Operated by
ROMANA TOUR E SERVIZI
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • If the chosen time is not available, you will be transferred to another time on the same day. These changes do not depend on us. Therefore, when making the reservation you are aware of this possibility, we will not accept subsequent complaints or refund requests. Example: If you choose the 9:30 am time slot and the Vatican ticket office closes at that time, you will be transferred to the first available time slot, 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 2 pm or 5 pm.
  • Important notice for last minute bookings (same day or overnight): in case of lack of spaces, the customer will be accommodated the day following the booked date.
  • This tour is shared.
  • It is advisable not to book more than one tour on the same day, with schedules close together.
  • Skip the included queue, it means you will be in the fast queue, not that there will be no one in front of you.

How it compares in Rome

  • Its from-price is 11% above the median of the 8352 experiences we list in Rome.
  • Its length is typical for the group.
  • By number of reviews it ranks 1337 of 8352.
  • The operator lists free cancellation on it.

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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