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Enjoy this exclusively designed private 4 hours tour of the stunning Vatican Museums, the second largest and the fifth most visited art museum in the world, home to the famous Sistine Chapel and Raphael Rooms. Skip the line and enter directly with your personal guide to enjoy some of world’s most renowned masterpieces produced by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, and make it special by visiting the off-the-beaten-path Golden Room, part of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum. Explore the fascinating Egyptian Museum and the vast collection of classical sculptures. Continue the visit by entering into St. Peter’s Basilica directly from the museums, without queuing up from the main square, and finish your tour in the charming St. Peter’s Square.
Pick-up and drop-off included in the tour.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Enjoy this exclusively designed private 4 hours tour of the stunning Vatican Museums, the second largest and the fifth most visited art museum in the world, home to the famous Sistine Chapel and Raphael Rooms. Skip the line and enter directly with your personal guide to enjoy some of world’s most renowned masterpieces produced by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, and make it special by visiting the off-the-beaten-path Golden Room, part of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum. Explore the fascinating Egyptian Museum and the vast collection of classical sculptures. Continue the visit by entering into St. Peter’s Basilica directly from the museums, without queuing up from the main square, and finish your tour in the charming St. Peter’s Square.
Pick-up and drop-off included in the tour.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Treat yourself with a customized private tour of the Vatican Museums and St. Peter’s Basilica. Visit the unique Golden Room which is mostly closed to the general public.Discover the Egyptian Museums and see its famous mummies. Enter the beautiful Golden Room, part of the Etruscan Museum, containing jewelry dating between the 9th and the 1st century BC, from the Iron Age until the progressive and definitive converging of the Etruscan cities into the structure of the Roman state. Enjoy the impressive Belvedere Courtyard and then stroll through the most interesting rooms and galleries of the museum complex. Marvel at the famous Lacoon and the Belvedere Torso at the sculpture museum, deeply revered by Michelangelo and other Renaissance artists. Explore the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of the Maps
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Continue to the Sistine Chapel and discover the details and the hidden meaning behind the frescoes by Michelangelo.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
End your tour visiting St Peter’s Basilica where you will find priceless artwork such as Michelangelo’s Pietà and Bernini’s Baldachin.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: La Pieta, Chapel of the Pieta Basilica Di San Pietro, Vatican City Italy
The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal’s funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
Stop At: St. Peter’s Square, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Enjoy an outside view of the Basilica from St Peter’s Square and admire the masterpiece designed by Bernini.
Duration: 15 minutes
