Itinerary
- Vatican Museums: Enjoy an exciting visit through art and religion in one of the world's most magnificent museums in the world.
You will have the change to wander through the Vatican Museums with your private guide and you will get to visit the Greek Cross Gallery and its wonderful ancient sarcophagi, then you will tour the Sala degli Animali to see a virtual menagerie of fantastic beasts, real and imagined. You will also walk the Upper Galleries, including the enchanting Gallery of Maps, to see how cartographers used to depict the world through the ages.
You will admire Raphael's Rooms and its enchanting frescoes such as "The School of Athens" and "The Deliverance of Saint Peters", then, you will rest for a while in the Borgia Apartments. - Sistine Chapel: In the Sistine Chapel, you will admire Michelangelo's wonderful frescoes such as The Last Judgement and the Creation of Adam and you will learn how this amazing Renaissance painter and how the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel took four years of hard work to complete.
Includes
- Dedicated guide
- Skip-the-line tickets to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
- Transportation
Details
With this small group tour you will have the opportunity to visit one of the most wonderful museums in the world, you will admire priceless works of art from the Papal collections such as the Gallery of Maps, the Gallery of Animals and the "School of Athens" in Raphael's rooms. You will walk past art and history and will learn everything about it. You will also get to know about how Michelangelo used to paint his breathtaking frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
Know Before You Go
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
