Experience the major highlights in the Vatican City on a 3-hour tour that covers the Museums, the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Church, and the Catacombs.
Discover the most important art collection in the world, located within over 1,200 rooms. With your guide you'll cover the most important masterpieces, focusing on the ancient Roman and Greek pieces in the Belvedere Courtyard, as well as the magnificent Sistine Chapel from when the Pope commissioned it to a leery Michelangelo until it was completed in 1512.
Straight after taking in the Sistine Chapel, you'll be granted direct access to St. Peter's Basilica. Explore the largest basilica in the world, built over what are believed to be the remains of St. Peter himself. Inside you'll find Michelangelo's Pietà and the Dome, as well as the massive Baldacchino Altar (bronze canopy sculpted by Bernini), Raphael's Transfiguration, and other monuments of grand artistic importance. Outside the magnificent Renaissance church, your guide will tell you all there is to know about the history of the Vatican State, it's Swiss Guard, and how St. Peter's Square was designed.
At the end of your experience, you'll also be lead you through the underground level, the Catacombs – an area of the Vatican rarely seen by tourists – where the tombs of the former popes are still kept today.