[:en]Vatican Gems: skip the line guided tour including Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St.Peter Basilica.
Highlights:
- Pinecone courtyard
- Pium-Clementinum Museum
- Tapestries Gallery
- Maps Gallery
- Raphael Rooms
- Sistine Chapel
- St.Peter Basilica
- Pieta by Michelangelo
- St. Peter Square
Summary
Expert, dedicated guide, art historian to show you the most famous Vatican masterpieces, the unique Sistine Chapel and the largest Catholic church in the world.
Description:
The tour starts with a visit to the Belevedere Palace, originally a 15th century Loggia later converted into the Pium-Clementinum Museum, housing some of the most important Roman marble statue preserved in the Vatican, as well as the famous Apoxyomenos, Apollo, Laocoon Group, Belvedere Torso, the Marble Zoo, and many others.
Then, passing through a series of galleries, decorated with antique chandeliers and tapestries, and including the amazing Gallery of Maps, painted in the 16th century, your guide show you a part of the papal apartment with the beautiful rooms, decorated by the famous painter Raphael.
They are considered one of the masterpieces of the so called Florentine Renaissance.
After leaving the papal apartment it will be time to gape at the splendor of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. It is one of the most famous cultural and artistic treasures in the Vatican City, known for being the place where the concleave and other official ceremonies take place and for being decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo, covering the vault and altar wall. The walls also kept a series of frescoes by some of the greatest Italian artists of the second half of the 15th century (Sandro Botticelli, Pinturicchio, Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and others). Through a direct passage your guide will lead you in St.Peter Basilica. Considered the largest catholic church in the world, St.Peter was built between the 16th and the 17th century and contains an endless series of masterpieces including the bronze canopy that decorates the altar, built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the papal tombs, the imposing Cupola projected by Michelangelo and the famous Pieta, curved by him when he was just over 20 years.
A view of the spectacular St.Peter Square concludes the tour.
Price: € 180
Operating days:Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Starting time: decided in agreement with the guide
Duration: 3,5 h
Meeting point: next to Museums entrance, your guide will be waiting for you holding a sign with your name. Map provided
Included: Skip the line entrance, guided tour with expert, dedicated, licensed guide. Passion, Knowledge and Customer Care. Time for pictures, time for wondering
Not included: admission tickets are not included. You will pay tickets fee on the day of the tour at the meeting point. Adults ticket is €20. For children aged between 6 and 18 years old (18 years included) ticket is €12. For students up to 25 years of age on presentation of a student identity card or an International Student Card on the day of the visit, ticket is €12. If a reduced price ticket is purchased without the required documents the visitor will be asked to make payment of a full price ticket so as to enter. The reduced ticket will not be refunded. If you will be more than 6 people, according to the rules of the Vatican Museums you must hire earphones at a cost of €3 per person. Your guide will rent headsets for you.
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