Early Bird Private Vatican Tour

A once-in-a-lifetime experience to enter the Vatican Museums ahead of the opening to the general public with this 3-hour private tour!

Allow yourself to be immersed in the beauty of the Vatican Collection in a more intimate, privileged setting! Explore the Galleries as well as the breathtaking Raphael Rooms, step into the Borgia Apartments to discover the Vatican's scandalous Borgia Pope. Admire the magnificence of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, renowned worldwide for Michelangelo's ceiling and altar masterpieces!
Choose the itinerary with Museums and Sistine Chapel only to spend more time in the Vatican Museums and see plenty of its highlights.

If you choose the option with Basilica you will enjoy a tour of 3.5 hours and visit the impressive St. Peter's Basilica. Stand in awe inside the St.Peter's Basilica home of the Bernini Baldacchino and Michelangelo's Pietà.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Vatican Museums and Upper Galleries, including the one of the Maps, Tapestries and Candelabra. The galleries are connecting the north section of the Vatican Palace with the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica of St. Peter’s. The rooms preserved many roman statues discovered during the excavations and many spectacular painted rooms.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with the Frescoes painted in the 1500s for the Pope Julius II and Paul III; Michelangelo first painted the Ceiling where he represented the Creation of the World, from the Genesis book, and stories of Noah’s life. The Renaissance “Genius” when he was 61 years old he will come back to paint in five years only Last Judgement on the wall behind the altar.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

The Basilica was built from the 1506 and it has replaced the Medieval Basilica built under the Emperor Constantine. The Basilica was built in 120 years by many architects including Raphael and Michelangelo. The inside decoration of the Basilica is very Baroque thanks to the “Genius of the Baroque Gian Lorenzo Bernini who projected the “Altar of the Chair of St. Peter” and the Baldachin. Inside the Basilica there is a beautiful chapel where is preserved the Michelangelo’s Pieta. The artists represent this painful moment with the body of Jesus laying on the laps of his mother after the deposition from the Cross.

Duration: 30 minutes