This tour is a wonderful opportunity to explore the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica in the company of a very experienced, English-speaking guide. In addition, with pre-arranged admission tickets there is no queuing and more time to enjoy the splendours that the Vatican City has to offer. With this high-quality guided tour you will be able to fully appreciate the wonders of the Vatican in a relaxed and un-hurried manner.

Your interesting and educational tour begins at the Vatican Museums where you will see beautiful Renaissance artefacts, including some of the finest from Roman and Greek antiquity: from the Cortile del Belvedere and Lysippos’ statues of Appollo, Laocoon and Apoxyomenos, you will marvel at the majestic scenes and objects d’art. Then it is on to the Room of the Animals, the Hall of Muses with its famous Torso, the Greek Cross Room, Gallery of the Candelabra and the Gallery of Tapestries. Passing through the Hall of Geographic Maps you enter the Raphael Rooms where you can take time to view some the master’s best works including the Parnassus, School of Athens and Disputation of the Holy Sacrament.

Via a narrow passageway you then arrive in the Borgia Apartments and the stunning Sistine Chapel. Here you will see the magnificent frescoes by Michelangelo, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio, renowned the world over.

You then enter the Basilica of St. Peter where you will see the most famous work of art in the Basilica, the Pietà, made from white Carrara marble and then you descend to the Vatican Grottoes where generations of popes have been laid to rest. The final part on this tour is a walk around St. Peter’s Square to see the impressive works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and to take the opportunity for an outside view of the Apostolic Palace, residence of the popes with it’s legendary smoking chimney.

This Vatican and Sistine Chapel Tour is very popular so book early and ensure a place. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information and reservations.