Skip-the-Line Tour: Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel

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

With 20,000 works are on display, the Vatican Museums display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Museo Pio Clementino, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Founded in 1771 Clement XIV and enlarged by his successor Pius VI, Pio-Clementino Museum houses works of Greek and Roman sculpture.

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Commissioned in 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII, Gallery of the Maps contains a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.

Duration: 15 minutes

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

The four Raphael Rooms are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Built between 1473 and 1481, the Sistine Chapel it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescoes that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, both by Michelangelo.

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Planned in the 15th century by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II and designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is one of the most renowned works of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and the largest church in the world by interior measure. Please note that access to the Basilica is sujbect of availability.

Duration: 30 minutes

• Skip-the-Line Entrance of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
• Guided Tour of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
• Use of headsets
• Access to the St. Peter's Basilica
• Guaranteed to skip the lines
• Entry/Admission - Stanze di Raffaello
• Entry/Admission - Museo Pio Clementino
• Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
• Entry/Admission - Gallery of Maps
• Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums

• Entrance of the St. Peter's Basilica is excluded from Express Guided Tour and after hours options

• Not wheelchair accessible
• Stroller accessible
• Near public transportation
• Most travelers can participate
• Dress Code; knees and shoulders must be covered
• Valid ID: Travelers are required to carry a valid identity document
• This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
• This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
• Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Via Sebastiano Veniero, 15, 00192 Roma RM, Italy

St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

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

2 to 3 hours