SKIP THE LINE TICKETS FOR VATICAN MUSEUM & SISTINE CHAPEL

Visit: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Founded in 1506 by the will of Pope Julius II from the celebrated Lacoon marble group, and opened to the public for the first time in 1771 with Pope Clement XIV, the Vatican Museums develop along a multiple series of corridors and rooms, hosting just as many priceless art collections. From the Classical Art - with the valuable sculptures by Phidias, Praxiteles,to the exquisite Gospel Book from Lorsch, a stronghold of Carolingian illumination; from the masterpieces by Giotto, Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael, to the purity of Antonio Canova's neoclassical lines, up the contemporary works of art by Dalì and Matisse, Vatican Museums offer their visitors an enchanting journey into culture, art and history. An integral part of the exhibition path is the Sistine Chapel, whose walls are a precious palimpsest of Italian Renaissance painting: with Botticelli, Perugino, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio and Signorelli paintings culminating in Michelangelo's frescoes of the vault and Western wall.