Private Early Access Vatican Tour with Skip the Line entrance ticket and Pick up

Private Early Access Vatican Tour with Skip the Line entrance ticket and Pick up

Tired of the massive crowd of tourists at the Vatican Museums? Buy this private tour with exclusive early access and visit the most iconic attraction of Rome before the public opening with a certified guide and skip the line entrance ticket!
Our private driver will pick you up from your hotel and will bring you to the Vatican Museums entrance where you will meet your guide.
Your guide will whisk you through the Sistine Chapel, where you will have time to pay attention to the details of the sublime “Last Judgment” by Michelangelo Buonarroti and admire as well his “Pietà” inside St. Peter’s Basilica.
At the end of the tour, you will not only understand the Vatican but will have energy left for more of the Eternal City!

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

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

The driver will bring you to the Vatican Museums entrance where you will meet your guide. She/he will whisk you through the Vatican's most important collections, before the public opening. You will first enter the Museums of the Vatican that, despite being one of the smallest countries in the world, houses a complex of museums, whose value is hard to quantify. After admiring the Belvedere and the Pigna (pinecone) Courtyard, you will appreciate the Picture Gallery that houses an amazing collection that includes Giotto, Perugino, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Dali… impossible to describe in a few lines. Follow your guide to the main exhibitions. She will focus on Greek and Roman originals, various Pope’s apartments painted by Masters like Raphael and Pinturicchio and the famous galleries of Tapestries, Candelabra and Maps.

Duration: 2 hours

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

The next part of the tour is the not-to-be-missed attraction, the Sistine Chapel, with its incredible ceiling by Michelangelo and his supreme masterpiece, the Last Judgment. Many other scenes are painted by the best Italian artists, such as Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and other masters. It will be surprisingly exciting standing in the centre of such beauty.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

From the Sistine, you will enter directly inside St. Peter’s Basilica, the world symbol of Christianity, famous for numerous Bernini’ s masterpieces and where you will admire the marvellous Pietà, created by Michelangelo Buonarroti at the age of 25. Admiring the numerous Renaissance and Baroque statues and paintings, note how this Basilica is so perfectly conceived: it belies its real size until you realize how small the people at the far end seem to be. The tour will end with the embrace of Bernini’s curved immense colonnades of St. Peter’s Square, and the view of the Pope’s Balcony.
On Wednesday morning, the tour of the Basilica is not permitted because of the Papal Audience.

Duration: 30 minutes