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St. Peter’s Basilica Tour: Vatican Wonders and History
4.7
41 Ratings
Roma
Explore St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican grottoes, and climb the dome for a panoramic view of Rome. Discover history, art, and beauty in this guided tour.
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- St. Peter’s Basilica - St. Peter’s Basilica is an ancient book of wonders. Your tour guide will explain to you the history of the church and introduce you to the smallest country in the world that is the Vatican City State Golden plated ceiling, optical illusions, Michelangelo’s Pietà, Bernini’s statues, and incredible mosaics, you will be lost in a world full of magic, spirituality, and beauty After a thorough tour of the church, your guide will take you to the Vatican grottoes where you will see the tomb of St. Peter, the tombs of the popes, and the remaining columns from Constantine’s original basilica (1700 years old) The tour will finish next to a graceful fountain with drinkable water. At that point, you will have the option to return inside the church and revisit what you saw, or to climb the dome and see a 360 degree panoramic view of Rome
What's Included
- Radio and headphones to follow the tour guide
What's Not Included
- Skip the Line
Additional Information
St. Peter’s Basilica is an ancient book of wonders. Your tour guide will explain to you the history of the church and introduce you to the smallest country in the world Vatican City State.
Golden plated ceiling, optical illusions, Michelangelo’s Pietà, Bernini’s statues, and incredible mosaics, you will be lost in a world full of beauty.
After a thorough tour of the church, your guide will take you to the Vatican grottoes where you will see the tomb of St. Peter, the tombs of the popes, and the remaining columns from Constantine’s original basilica (1700 years old).
The tour will finish next to a graceful fountain with drinkable water. At that point, you will have the option to return inside the church and revisit what you saw, or to climb the dome and see a 360 degree panoramic view of Rome.
Location
Via di Porta Cavalleggeri, 61
Via di Porta Cavalleggeri
We meet our clients in our main office, in Via di Porta Cavalleggeri 61, Rome.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(41 Ratings)
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Venture574202
Oct 6, 2024
Inspiring insights - We thoroughly enjoyed our tour on Sunday with Sam. Extremely informative and interesting facts throughout. Such insight into history of the Basilica and Papal tombs. Sam's enthusiasm was contagious! Highly recommend 👌
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Mike_d
Oct 5, 2024
Great Tour and Experience - Our guide was very knowledgeable and made the hour wait in line feel like we were in a history tour giving us great historical context on the site before going in. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Rome.
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Jay_g
Sep 28, 2024
The St Peters Basilica tour was great; and I cannot say enough about the professionalism and knowledge of our tour guide - Although I had been to St Peters Basilica, my spouse had not. We both enjoyed the experience, and the tour guide was fantastic. She really knew here information, relayed it well to the group, and offer great insight. She was also very friendly.
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Naomi_a
Sep 27, 2024
Breathtaking St. Peter’s - We LOVED our tour with Lydia. She is extremely knowledgeable and has a very pleasant delivery style. She paced the group well even through the crowds. We would definitely recommend Lydia!
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Sabine_b
Sep 18, 2024
Great tour, highly recommended - We had a wonderful tour through Peters dome. The queue was endless but our guide Peter was very entertaining and gave a lot of interesting insights about the history of the dome.
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Anonymous
Sep 16, 2024
Highly recommend. - Our tour guide Sam was excellent. Lead us through an interesting and comprehensive tour of St. Peter’s square, Basilica and the Catacombs. Vatican security lines very long and time consuming., but Sam helped pass the time by sharing his knowledge with us. Meeting point conveniently located. Highly recommend this tour.
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790purel
Aug 31, 2024
Amazing tour by Peter - Peter did an amazing tour of the Saint Peter Basilica! I expected some normal facts, but he was giving a very enriching, authentic tour, diving deep into philosophy, religion and all the metaphors and messages portrayed in the artwork inside the basilica. Seeing the tomb of Saint Peter himself beneath the Basilica was definitely a highlight of the tour. Can only recommend to do your tour with them.
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Catschuf
Oct 3, 2024
Tour Guide - Perfect! Sights & Security - Under Construction & Long Lines! - Our guide, Lydia, was exceptional! She was very knowledgeable, accommodating, positive and interesting.
We were disappointed with two aspects of the tour, however - the security line was very long (almost an hour) and several things to see were under construction (the baldichin, the Pieta, etc.) These were things we were unaware of when we purchased the tour tickets about a month ago.
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Sophie_f
Sep 23, 2024
Mediocre experience - The 2h tour consisted of waiting 1h in line while the guide threw so many facts at us that it was hard to follow. By the time we entered the church we were quite drained already and quite frankly I can hardly remember anything. On top of that the guide shamed one of the new pieces of art in front of the church calling it ugly - of course he is entitled to his own decision but I think in terms of doing a guided tour this was misplaced (I think the sculpture is amazing).
All in all, I cannot recommend the tour. Waiting in line is just being capitalized.
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Karen_m
Sep 11, 2024
Good guide, bad tour - The guide did a great job! However, large "small" group tour, the radios didn't all work, long line to get in
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