Skip the Line : Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Guided tours

Don't waste your time waiting in lines! Book your Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, San Peter Basilica guided tour and skip the queue!

VATICAN STATE (Early morning)
Trips2Italy code: GTHAWAR                                 

Price: 85 usd per person (INCLUDED 20 EURO TICKET ENTRANCE!)
Length: 3 hours 
Available: Monday - Thursday – Saturday -
Departure time: h.7.45am (8.15 am during winter time)

Stops: • Vatican Museums • Raphael's rooms • Sistine Chapel • Basilica of St. Peter • St. Peter's Square

A fascinating itinerary on foot to the discovery of art, history and religion of the smallest state in the world. Our guide will take you inside the Vatican Museums before the official opening-time: in this way you will skip the long lines and you will have the chance to admire, in the galleries not yet overcrowded, the impressive beauty of the place.
Price includes: English speaking guide, entrance fees, Local taxes and Service charges

Our guide will take you inside the Vatican Museums before the official opening-time: in this way you will skip the long lines and you will have the chance to admire, in the galleries not yet overcrowded, the impressive beauty of the place. (*From November to March entrance during official opening hours)

Detailed Itinerary:

Passing through the Court of the Pigna, designed by Bramante in the XVI cent. you will enter inside the Belvedere Palace, of the late XV cent.; in the first room is housed the Apoxyomenos by Lisippo, the only roman copy still existing of this Greek masterpiece. You are now in the heart of the museum, the Belvedere Courtyard. It was here that were placed the first masterpieces of Greek and Roman art exhibited in the Renaissance: the Apollo Belvedere, one of the most famous works of antiquity, and the Laocoon Group, defined by Pliny the Elder "the biggest sculpture known at that time".  Preceding with the visit you will quickly pass the secondary galleries to reach the room of the Belvedere Torso, work of the I cent. b.C., much admired by the Renaissance artists, especially Michelangelo. Passing through the round room, with a monumental basin in porphyry in the centre, you will go into the Greek Cross Room where the splendid Sarcophagi of St. Helene and St. Constance is housed.  Walking through the Galleries of the Candelabra, of the Maps and of the Tapestries you will reach the Apostolic Palace, the oldest section of the complex of the Vatican Palaces.
Your guide will show you the Apartaments of Julius II, splendidly decorated by Raphael and his assistants and then the Sistine Chapel, where you will admire one of the highest masterpieces of art: the Genesis and the Last Judgement by Michelangelo, that after the last restorations have gained their original splendor. Leaving the Sistine Chapel and going down the Royal Stairway, projected by Bernini, the guide will conduct you to the Basilica of St. Peter, the most important temple of Christianity, which gathers inside 2000 years of history and famous works of art as the Pietà by Michelangelo. The visit ends at St. Peter Square, destination of all Catholics coming from all over the world, embraced by the colonnade, architectonic masterpiece by Bernini, under the symbolic protection of the "Cupolone", as the Romans call Michelangelo's dome.

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