Skip the Line: Quality-Vatican Tour with Vatican Museums, Raphael’s Rooms, Sistine Chapel and St. Peters Basilica

The best way to explore the masterpieces at the Vatican is to take part of our 3.5-hour Vatican Walking Tour in a small group with a maximum of 18 participants including Raphael’s Rooms and St. Peter’s Basilica. Don’t waste your precious time on waiting in long lines (in high season up to 3/4 hours to buy your ticket ar the museum) but join our skip-the-line tour to safe your time and to enjoy your day admiring the masterpieces of the Vatican state with the precious help of a graduated, professional and expert guide.

Tour-Highlights:
• 3 ½ hours guided tour
• All admission fees
• Head sets to hear the guide clearly
• Raphael’s Rooms
• Tapestry Gallery
• Maps Gallery
• Candelabra Gallery
• Pio Clementine Museum
• Sistine Chapel
• St. Peter’s Basilica

Your tour begins at the Vatican Museums. The magnificent museum complex offers galleries, paintings, sculptures, frescoes, tapestries and classical antiquities of Roman, Greek and Egyptian origin.

Your professional guide will take you to visit the Raphael's Rooms, Pine Courtyard, the Gallery of the Maps, the Gallery of Tapestries, Pio Clementine Museum and the Gallery of the Candelabra. Then proceed inside the stunning Sistine Chapel where you can admire Michelangelo’s world famous frescos ‘The Last Judgment’ and ‘The Creation of Adam’. At the end of the tour your guide will take you to visit the largest church in Christendom, the St. Peter’s Basilica, and will introduce you there history of several art works such as Michelangelo’s famous ‘La Pietà’ sculpture, Bernini’s immense 'Baldachino' and much more! The tour will conclude at St. Peter's Square.

Do not leave Rome without visiting the famous Vatican Museums. Whether you're a novice or an art veteran our professional tour guides, with a degree in art history or in archeology, will provide you a detailed and memorable guided tour. The group will have at the maximum 18 people which guarantees personalized attention from your guide.

Vatican tour on Wednesday mornings: St. Peter's Basilica might be closed for the public on Wedneday mornings due to the weekly Papal Audience. In this case you will have a 3.5-hour walking tour of Vatican Museums, the Raphael's Rooms and the Sistine Chapel.

A dress code is required: knees and shoulders must be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements.

Please note that tours on the 24th and the 31st December might not include St. Peter's Basilica, as it might be closed for the public because of the Mass. Infant (0-5 years old): Free.

This tour is not wheelchair accessible.

Meeting point is on the corner of Viale Giulio Cesare and Via Leone IV (opposite Burger King). Directions for the meeting point: Take Metro Line A to Ottaviano metro station. When you get out from the metro at Ottaviano station, take the second exit on the left and make a left. Please pass the newsstand you see outside the metro station, and keep on walking until you get to the corner of Via Leone IV. Please meet us 15 minutes before tour starts and bring your booking confirmation.