Small Group Tour of Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel
Your tour starts meeting your guide and the rest of the group in front of Caffè Vaticano. Our group consists of maximum 22 people or less. You will enter the Vatican Museums with pre-purchased, skip-the-line tickets avoiding the queue.
With our tour, you will have a great impression of the Vatican. You will visit first of all the famous Pinacoteca (painting Gallery) and the other impressive main galleries such as the Gallery of Candelabra, Gallery of Tapestries, Gallery of the Maps and then proceed to the Raphael’s rooms and Borgia apartment.
The Gallery of the Candelabra is famous for the Roman copies of Hellenistic originals, dated back to the 2nd and 3rd century BC and fascinating 2nd century candelabras. Visiting the Gallery of Maps, you will learn the topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
Raphael’s Rooms and Borgia apartments were Papal apartments. In the Raphael Rooms where the School of Athens is representing in a whole side wall; you will admire the spectacular art works of Raphael Sanzio and your guide will tell you interesting anecdotes and stories.
In the Borgia Apartments, you will see fascinating decoration of the most refined artists of the Italian Early Renaissance including the Pinturicchio artworks.
What’s special in your tour, is the visit of the Pinacoteca (Painting Gallery), a prestigious gallery with artwork of the Italian masters such as Raphael, Caravaggio and Leonardo Da Vinci, in the Pinacoteca are also preserved the originals tapestries based on the cartoon of Raphael. Once those tapestries stood inside the Sistine Chapel. The Tapestries represent episodes from the life of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Last but not least, you will visit the stunning Sistine Chapel. Put your nose up and look at the ceiling: the amazing painting of Michelangelo will take your breath again. You will see the Ceiling with the impressive Creation of the World and the Last Judgement both painted by Michelangelo in a very short time.