Wheelchair Accessible Private Vatican Museums Tour

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1. Start your tour at the renowned Vatican Museums. Aside from being the home of the Pope, Vatican City is also home to the Vatican Museums, the world's largest collection of art with 9 miles of artworks that wrap around the Vatican walls 4½ times. It contains 54 museums, 1,400 rooms, chapels, and galleries. Aside from the renowned Sistine Chapel, the museums also display the only work of Leonardo da Vinci in Rome, along with masterpieces by St. Jerome, the Raphael Rooms, and the Pinacoteca, which houses collections of the Popes dating back to the Middle Ages and arranged in chronological order.

   2.5 hAdmission included

2. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel is possibly the most well-known masterpiece in modern day, with over 5 million visitors per year. It was a project the artist took on reluctantly because his focus was sculpture, and he would often complain about the physical toll it took on his body. It is said that the design of the chapel from Pope Sixtus IV is modeled after Solomon's Temple from the Old Testament, measuring just larger than a professional basketball court! There are many more frescoes to admire here from other artists, including Domenico Ghirlandaio, Pietro Perugino, Cosimo Roselli, and Sandro Botticelli.

   30 minAdmission included

3. You will head through a secret entry into our last stop on the tour, St. Peter's Basilica, the largest basilica in the world, with markings inside the church showing that every other basilica could fit within it. Visitors are welcomed by Michelangelo's Pietà at the entrance, followed by magnificent mosaics and Bernini's Baldacchino, which stands 96 feet tall and weighs 100,000 pounds of bronze. Surprisingly, there is only one actual painting inside the Basilica, which can be spotted hanging above the Pietà. Many Popes are buried within the church or are on display, while most are buried beneath the Basilica, including St. Peter, the first Pope.

   1 hAdmission included

Cancellation

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

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How it compares in Rome

• Its from-price is 27% above the median of the 8352 experiences we list in Rome.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 4930 of 8352.
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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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