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If you want a complete overview of Vatican city, this is the tour you are looking for.
Listen to your expert guide recount stories about St. Peter’s Square and it’s colonnade and have all of your questions answered. Once inside St. Peter’s Basilica, hear all about one of the most relevant Italian artworks like: Michelangelo’s Pietà and St. Peter’s Baldacchin, Bernini’s sculpture situated in front of the altar.
After visiting the Basilica, your tour guide will take you to the entrance of the Vatican Museums, where you’ll benefit from your skip the line tickets.
The Vatican Museums has one of the biggest art galleries in the world. Inside take advantage of your knowledgeable guide while exploring the Gallery of the Tapestries, the Gallery of Masks and Galleries of the Candelabras.
Admire the stunning frescoes on the walls of Raphael’s rooms.
End your tour by visting the Sistine Chapel, where you will be able to see the beutiful frescoes, including the Last Judgement by Michelangelo.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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If you want a complete overview of Vatican city, this is the tour you are looking for.
Listen to your expert guide recount stories about St. Peter’s Square and it’s colonnade and have all of your questions answered. Once inside St. Peter’s Basilica, hear all about one of the most relevant Italian artworks like: Michelangelo’s Pietà and St. Peter’s Baldacchin, Bernini’s sculpture situated in front of the altar.
After visiting the Basilica, your tour guide will take you to the entrance of the Vatican Museums, where you’ll benefit from your skip the line tickets.
The Vatican Museums has one of the biggest art galleries in the world. Inside take advantage of your knowledgeable guide while exploring the Gallery of the Tapestries, the Gallery of Masks and Galleries of the Candelabras.
Admire the stunning frescoes on the walls of Raphael’s rooms.
End your tour by visting the Sistine Chapel, where you will be able to see the beutiful frescoes, including the Last Judgement by Michelangelo.
Itinerary
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Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome. It was initially planned by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the aging Old St. Peter’s Basilica, which was built in the 4th century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
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 renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.
Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, in Vatican City and the official residence of the pope. Originally known as the Cappella Magna (‘Great Chapel’), the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who built it between 1473 and 1481.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
The Vatican City State, also known simply as the Vatican, became independent from Italy with the Lateran Treaty (1929), and it is a distinct territory under “full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction” of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state’s temporal, diplomatic, and spiritual independence.With an area of 49 hectares and a population of about 825,it is the smallest state in the world by both area and population.
