Visit to the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter's Basilica

Overview

The Vatican Museums are one of the greatest museums in the world, since they display works from the immense collection built up by Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries, including the incredible Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. The tour introduces you to the most important artworks in the museum, including the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms. After visiting the Sistine Chapel, the tour continues with a tour of St. Peter's Basilica.

Tour details

When: from April 1st to October 31st, daily except Sundays and Wednesdays
Time: 9.30 am
Duration: about 3.5 hours (tour ends at Saint Peters Basilica, so it will not be possible to come back to the Vatican Museums afterwards)
Meeting point: at 9.15 am, at the large stairs in Via Tunisi, between the Caffè Vaticano and the Hotel Alemandi
Included: timed entrance to the Vatican Museum (ticket and booking fee), map of the museum, guided tour, headphones
Participants: maximum 30 per group, minimum 2

Languages high season (March 15th to November 16th):
English: Everyday at 09:30
Spanish: Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10.30 am
French: Saturdays at 10.30 am
Italian: Saturdays at 9.30 am

Languages low season (November 17th to March 14th):
English: Everyday except Wednesday at 09:30
Spanish and French: Saturdays at 10.30 am
Italian: Saturdays at 9.30 am

Tour can be confirmed with at least 2 people on the waiting list for the specific language.

From October 21st to March 31st, tour on Wednesday is not performed for Vatican decision.

Rooms closed at the moment of the visit will be indicated at entrance.
Access to the Museums is permitted only to visitors with proper attire.
All the reservations, dates and times might be changed or canceled due to unforeseen circumstances related to activities of the Pope.
Reservations can be made until 2 days before the visit.

PLEASE NOTE: museum starts confirming visits not earlier than two months before the date, so reservation guarantees the insertion into the waiting list. Charge to the credit card takes place the working day after the request; in case visit is not confirmed because of the minimum number of people needed not reached, we will refund the import charged for the visit.

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Closure:
Sundays (except for the last Sunday of each month, excluding Easter, June 29th and December 25th and 26th)
January 1st and 6th (Epiphany)
February 11th (Lateran Pacts Anniversary)
March 19th (St. Joseph), 23rd and 24th (Easter - Easter Monday)
May 1st (Ascension Thursday) and May 22nd (Corpus Christi Day)
August 14 (Assumption Vigil) and 15th (Assumption Day)
November 1st (All Saint's Day)
December 8th (Feast of the Immaculate Conception), 25th (Christmas Day) and 26th (St. Stephen's Day).

Cancellation policy:
All client cancellations must arrive up to 8 days before the date of the tour to be reimbursed free of charge. If you cancel 8 to 2 days before the date, we keep 10% of the total fee. Further cancellations imply no refund possible. Clients arriving late will not be reimbursed for the missed visit, nor will a client who gets separated from the group during the visit or who does not complete the visit. In case of cancellation of a tour by the tour operator for reasons of force majeur, clients will only be reimbursed for the amount paid for the tour. Tour operator is not responsible for any additional costs in connection with the reimbursement.

Details

Saint Peter's Cathedral was consacrated on Nov. 18, 1626. It is the world's largest church, with a floor area of 21,477 m2. The external perimeter is 1,778 meters, it is 186.35 meters long and 97.50 meters wide. The main nave is 40 meters high, and the dome 132.50 meters. There are 44 altars, 11 domes, 778 columns, 395 statues, 135 mosaic panels. From Saint Peter's portico you enter the main entrance hall, with its five doors. On the right you can see the Holy Door, which is opened only every 25 years, in Jubilee or Holy years.

The largest, richest, most compelling and perhaps most exhausting museum complex in the world. Much booty from the city's history has ended up here, from both classical and later times, and many of the Renaissance's finest artists were in the employ of the pope.

As its name suggests, the Vatican Palace actually holds a collection of museums on very diverse subjects, displays of classical statuary, Renaissance painting, Etruscan relics, Egyptian artifacts, not to mention the furnishings and decoration of the palace itself. The Vatican Museums are the Egyptian Museum, Chiaramonti Museum, Museum Of Popes Clement Xiv And Pius Vi, Gregorian Museum Of Etruscan Art, Antiquarium Romanum, Vase Collection, The Biga Room, Gallery Of The Candelabra, Gallery Of The Tapestries, Gallery Of The Maps, Apartment Of St.Pius V, Sobieski Room, Room Of The Immaculate Conception, Raphael's Rooms And Loggias, Collection Of Modern Religious Art, Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Library, Vatican Picture Gallery, Gregorian Museum Of Profane Art, Christian Museum, Missionary Museum Of Ethnology and the Carriage Pavilion.

Deservedly one of the most famous places in the world, the Sistine Chapel is the site where the conclave for the election of the popes and other solemn pontifical ceremonies are held. Built to the design of Baccio Pontelli by Giovannino de Dolci between 1475 and 1481, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who commissioned it. It is a large rectangle with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and it is divided into two unequal parts by a marble screen. The screen and the transenna were built by Mino da Fiesole and other artists.

Prices

Price for person: € 50.00

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