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Early Morning Vatican Tour
3 h
Morning
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Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Discover the wonders of the Vatican in complete peace by entering 1 hour before the general opening. Avoid the crowd of the peak hours and explore the Vatican museums in a 3 hours tour with an engaging professional guide who will bring you back to the times of masters like Michelangelo and Raphael. This journey in the finest art will take you through the Pinacoteca (picture gallery), which contains the cream of the Vatican’s collection of medieval and Renaissance paintings, the Vatican Galleries, including the one of the Tapestries and the one of the Geographical Maps.
120 meters long, it represents the largest geographical representation ever made. Frescoed on the walls are in fact 40 geographical maps, which depict all of Italy in every detail. seas, rivers, cities and historical episodes. On the vault are instead 51 frescoes representing miraculous episodes linked to the locations below. In short, a sensational visit, and truly unique in its kind. You will then pass through Pope Borgia’s apartment, the Raphael’s rooms, entire rooms painted by Raphael and, of course, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Citta del Vaticano 1, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Commissioned by Pope Julius II, this is undoubtedly the most famous of all the museums, and represents one of the most extraordinary artistic achievements in the world. It is in fact here that Michelangelo gave proof of all his art and his creativity, creating a unique pictorial work, for which he spent more than 5 years, where the artist had to paint more of 300 figures in 5 thousand square meters! The Sistine Chapel is a sacred place, suggestive and extraordinary that deserves to be seen at its best with this early visit.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza di San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
At this point your tour guide will lead the group through a special gateway. Note that this privileged access means you skip the line one more time to enter directly inside the awesome St. Peter Basilica.It is here that you’ll really understand the value of this guided visit. In a rare quiet and solitude you have the opportunity to admire this impressive church built by the most famous artists and architects in history and remain breathless in front of works that include the 29 meters high St. Peter’s Baldachin, or be amazed in front of Michelangelo’s “Pietà”, the only work that he has ever signed.
Duration: 1 hour
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Discover the wonders of the Vatican in complete peace by entering 1 hour before the general opening. Avoid the crowd of the peak hours and explore the Vatican museums in a 3 hours tour with an engaging professional guide who will bring you back to the times of masters like Michelangelo and Raphael. This journey in the finest art will take you through the Pinacoteca (picture gallery), which contains the cream of the Vatican’s collection of medieval and Renaissance paintings, the Vatican Galleries, including the one of the Tapestries and the one of the Geographical Maps.
120 meters long, it represents the largest geographical representation ever made. Frescoed on the walls are in fact 40 geographical maps, which depict all of Italy in every detail. seas, rivers, cities and historical episodes. On the vault are instead 51 frescoes representing miraculous episodes linked to the locations below. In short, a sensational visit, and truly unique in its kind. You will then pass through Pope Borgia’s apartment, the Raphael’s rooms, entire rooms painted by Raphael and, of course, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Citta del Vaticano 1, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Commissioned by Pope Julius II, this is undoubtedly the most famous of all the museums, and represents one of the most extraordinary artistic achievements in the world. It is in fact here that Michelangelo gave proof of all his art and his creativity, creating a unique pictorial work, for which he spent more than 5 years, where the artist had to paint more of 300 figures in 5 thousand square meters! The Sistine Chapel is a sacred place, suggestive and extraordinary that deserves to be seen at its best with this early visit.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza di San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
At this point your tour guide will lead the group through a special gateway. Note that this privileged access means you skip the line one more time to enter directly inside the awesome St. Peter Basilica.It is here that you’ll really understand the value of this guided visit. In a rare quiet and solitude you have the opportunity to admire this impressive church built by the most famous artists and architects in history and remain breathless in front of works that include the 29 meters high St. Peter’s Baldachin, or be amazed in front of Michelangelo’s “Pietà”, the only work that he has ever signed.
Duration: 1 hour
Included
- Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums
- Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
- Entry/Admission - St. Peter's Basilica
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
Features
Tourism
85%
Cultural
70%
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We enjoyed this tour. The tour guide they gave us was extremely knowledgeable and enjoyable to listen to. The only thing to note is that the tour makes promotes you are getting a more private tour before the Vatican opens. This may be the case but there are still 100's of people going early who we guess also got the same early morning packages. Not sure what the tour would have been like had we gone later in the day but expect that it would have been even crazier packed. So, expect to still have to be with crowds. However, they give you head phones so you can still easily listen to your guide. They met us exactly where they told us to meet and we would recommend this tour.