Vatican Tour: Skip-the-Line Art Exploration

Embark on a Vatican & Vatacombs Tour to discover the treasures of the Sistine Chapel with skip-the-line entry. Explore the art collection, learn about its history, and visit St. Peter’s Basilica and the papal crypts. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Vatican Museums - Vast museums inside the Vatican City which house many thousands of ancient works of art and sculpture. The most important museum complex in the world!
  • Sistine Chapel - Simply the most colourful room in the world! Michelangelo’s ceiling will deeply impress all who enter.
  • St. Peter’s Basilica - Visit the Papal Basilica…
What's Included
  • Expert licensed English-speaking tour guide
  • Fast-track entry and guided visit of St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Explore the frescoed Rooms of Raphael
  • Priority entrance to the Vatican Museums
  • Immersive experience in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Experience stress-free admission to arguably the globe’s largest and most significant art collection. For over five centuries, popes have enlisted the skills of the most accomplished artists and sculptors to create masterpieces for the Vatican, appreciated by an exclusive group of clergy, nobility, and intellectuals.
Follow the path trodden by popes and…

Location
Via Sebastiano Veniero, 19
Via Sebastiano Veniero
Via Sebastiano Veniero 19, nearest metro station is called Ottaviano / San Pietro / Musei Vaticani on Linea A which on any Rome metro map is coloured orange.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Gareth67mc
Dec 5, 2024
Vatican & Vatacombs: Treasures of the Sistine Chapel - We met with Sabrina outside the office and we were given a rundown of tour and necessary information. We proceeded to the Vatican, with Sabrina making the entry process hassle free. The tour was excellent, very well paced and our guide was extremely knowledgeable, whilst making it interesting. Thoroughly recommended
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T9331xdhanss
Nov 24, 2024
Amazing Vatican St Peter’s Basilica and Sistine Chapel - Marianne was an excellent guide. Very knowledgeable and pointed out the key highlights. It is really overwhelming to see so many sculptures paintings frescoes and historical artifacts. Well worth the money to go on this tour. Just note that the tour is physically demanding with lots of steps and ground to cover. Wear comfortable shoes and bring water.
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Genlee33
Nov 2, 2024
Great way to see Vatican - Very impressed with ItaliaTours overall. Our guide for the Vatican tour was very knowledgeable and interesting, and was really good at helping the group navitgate the chaotic logisitics required to get through the tour spaces. He gave us the right amount of information and managed a few challenging folks in the tour group very effectively.
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Melindam1225
Oct 11, 2024
Excellent tour! - Our tour guide, Nadia was excellent! She was very informative. The tour was excellent too! Lots of walking & standing. Fast paced tour through the museum but that was ok. We were able to see so much! Highly recommend this tour.
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Carla_s
Oct 8, 2024
Perfecto!! - Everything…the museum, Sistine Chapel and Basilica were awe inspiring. Our guide Francesca was “perfecto”
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Dawn_s
Sep 22, 2024
Vatican - Our guide was very knowledgeable, warm, friendly and accommodating. I learned a lot of history of Rome.
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A3469ajhenrys
Sep 19, 2024
Amazing tour filled with lot's of background information - Massimo was an amazing tour guide. With an Art History background, Massimo provided a lot of insight and information on a lot of art that is in the Vatican Museum. The pace of the tour was good. Answered many questions. Only challenges and things that Massimo has no control over, lots of walking, overcrowded, and weather was very cool and it rained. But I'll take the rain and cool weather over the 32+ degree Celsius any day cuz Massimo said that the Vatican Museum is not air conditioned.
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Christine_d
Sep 19, 2024
Informational great guide - Awesome guide! So knowledgeable and answered all our questions. Informational, yet interesting at the same time.
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Pamelap948
Nov 24, 2024
Worth the tour - This is touted as "Entire Vatican & Vatacombs: Treasures of the Sistine Chapel" , it was not the entire but you certainly can't do the entire anything here in a few hours. I would say it was definitely enough. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable. Again, hard to retain all the information being delivered for sure. It was very well organized!
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305mathiasn
Oct 25, 2024
Underground catacombs not included - We were 2 on the tour, it was very nice and one got seen a lot. Unfortunately, it was difficult to enjoy the experience properly because of how fast it went and how many tourists there were inside; it was well filled up. However, my biggest problem with the trip was that the title says 'the entire vertical and catacombs': It is not the actual catacombs that are included in this tour, but the ‘vatacombs’, which is a lower corridor where they have placed the coffins they have dragged up from the old catacombs. Think it better could have paid off with a cheaper trip that also includes the Sixtine Chapel.
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