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Visit the Vatican joining a fun friendly 3 hours small group tour. You will meet the rest of the group and your guide at 7:30am and enter the Museums at 8:00am, one hour before it opens to the general public. In this way you will be able to visit less crowded galleries.
The tour will include the main highlights of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel.
The average of the group is between 15-18 people but can be up to 20 people.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Visit the Vatican joining a fun friendly 3 hours small group tour. You will meet the rest of the group and your guide at 7:30am and enter the Museums at 8:00am, one hour before it opens to the general public. In this way you will be able to visit less crowded galleries.
The tour will include the main highlights of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel.
The average of the group is between 15-18 people but can be up to 20 people.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Your tour will start in the Vatican Museums and Upper Galleries, which include the one of the Maps, Tapestries, and Candelabra. The galleries are connecting the north section of the Vatican Palace with the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica of St. Peter’s.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Raphael Rooms are part of the apartment of Pope Julius II, while the young Raphael was painting the Room of the “Signatura” Michelangelo was painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . The two artists were rivalry but Raphael will recognize the talent of Michelangelo in the “School of Athens”, you will see also the Parnassus and the Dispute over the Sacrament
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Borgia Rooms, the apartment was painted by Pinturicchio and his school and it was commissioned by the spanish Pope Alexander VI Borgia. They are inside the oldest section of the Apostolic Palace. You will see the main rooms of it that preserves also part of the art works from modern and contemporary art.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Modern art and contemporary galleries creating was creating thanks to the several donations in honor of Pope Paul VI that during a special Speech inside the Sistine Chapel he called back to the Church the modern and contemporary artists recreating the link between art and church. Many donations arrived from United States and other countries. You will see Matisse, Chagall, Dalì, Bacon
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel with the Frescoes painted in the 1500s for the Pope Julius II and Paul III; Michelangelo first painted the Ceiling where he represented the Creation of the World, from the Genesis book, and stories of Noah’s life. The Renaissance “Genius” when he was 61 years old he will come back to paint in five years only Last Judgement on the wall behind the altar.
Duration: 30 minutes
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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.
