Private tour Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel

Rome, Italy
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Our tours are led by professional guides who are licensed by the city of Rome & Vatican State. They are either native speakers or speak the requested language very well.

Your private guide will lead you the parts of the Vatican Museums that you are most interested in. The private tour can be catered to YOUR particular request. If there are areas that you want to focus your tour on, please let us know in advance so that the guide can be sure to prepare the tour as you request. If you don't have a special request, your expert guide will take you to the most important "must-see" artworks in the Vatican Museums.

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Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

You will meet your private guide at our office on via Santamaura 21, we're situated right in the Vatican area.
You will enter the Museums with a privileged entrance ticket.
If you have any special requests please don't hesitate !

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Cortile della Pigna, Vatican City Italy

The itinerary includes the Cortile della Pigna, so namned for the huge broze pine cone, located in the courtyard.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Stanze di Raffaello, Viale Vaticano, Vatican City Italy

The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms.

You will visit the Raphael Rooms, where you will be enraptured with the frescoes as "The School of Athens" and "Liberation of St. Peter"

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Gallery of the Candelabra, 00120, Vatican City

Wondering around these amazing halls

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Gallery of Maps, VA, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

Gallery of the Maps and Gallery of the Tapestries takes its name from the giant painting that represents the victory of the Polish King Sobieski III at eh Battle of Vienna againt the Turks 1683

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Gallery of Tapestries, VA, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

Gallery of the Tapestries is located in the very heart of the Vatican, this gallery displays an enormous amount of tapestries by the brilliant artist Raffaello Sanzio and realized by Belgian tapestry mamkers

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy

The Sistine Chapel is one of the greatest trasure of the Vatican City. It is known as much for its decoration, as for being the temple in which popes are chosen and crowned.

What grabs attention in the Sistine Chapel is the frescoes that completly cover the walls and the ceiling.

All the frescoes of the ceiling are work of Michelangelo, who spent four years painting the vault between 1508 and 1512.

The best-known image from the Sistine Chapel is located in the central part - The Creation of Adam, the other masterpiece of Michelangelo is The Final Judgement located over the high altar.

Duration: 20 minutes

Inclusions

  • Private tourguide
  • Entry/Admission - Stanze di Raffaello
  • Entry/Admission - Cortile della Pigna
  • Entry/Admission - Gallery of Tapestries
  • Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
  • Entry/Admission - Gallery of Maps
  • Entry/Admission - Gallery of the Candelabra
  • Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums

Exclusions

  • Gratuites

Additional information

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

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You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

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