Custom Rome Italy Vatican City Tours

The Vatican in Rome is the official residence of the Pope. While in Rome enjoy an intimate day at the Vatican City with a comprehensive private guided skip the line Vatican City tour of the Vatican Museums, and Sistine Chapel led by one of Nancy Aiello knowledgeable and passionate licensed official Vatican tour guides who leads you through the impressive Vatican Museum “the sanctuary of art and faith” to use the words of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to admire the world most extensive collection of art and masterpieces where sumptuous galleries filled with one masterpiece after another lead you directly to the Sistine Chapel.
Get all your questions answered with your personable tour guide and enjoy privileged entrance to the Vatican to gain a high level overview of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. The tour ends in the monumental St. Peter’s Square or if you wish you can choose to stay inside the Museums/Chapel longer or to enjoy privileged entrance to St. Peter's Basilica to have devotional time on your own.
In the footsteps of the Popes your personal art historian tour guide leads you to the impressive Vatican Museums remarkable Popes collection of marble statuary, tapestries and paintings, to discover art, history and religion of the Holy See. You visit the Ancient Papal Apartments painted by Raphael, the outstanding Sistine Chapel the most emblematic example of papal patronage in the world, which has been completely restored in the last twenty years. The Sistine Chapel is more than an art lover's paradise it is the room where cardinals from around the world convene to elect new popes. A highlight of your private guided tour is the Sistine Chapel where your art historian tour guide will allow as much time as possible to admire Michelangelo extraordinary Sistine ceiling which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels. Your private guided tour of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel will conclude in the spectacular St. Peter Square dominated by St. Peter Basilica, impressively flanked by Bernini 17th century elliptical colonnade whose central point is the ancient Egyptian obelisk which contains a relic of the cross of Christ and from which you can look at the Pope private residence. In designing this elliptical colonnaded piazza Bernini turned an undefined area in front of the cathedral into a grandiose space where "the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing".
This intimate skip the line Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel tour can be further customized to focus on specific periods of art, architecture or culture and to accommodate the needs of disabled travelers, families touring Rome with children and cruise passengers touring the Vatican on a Rome shore trip excursion.
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Please Note: This is a private guided skip the line tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel ending in St. Peter Square and it does NOT include a tour of St. Peter Basilica. Should you wish to include a tour of St. Peter Basilica please, consider upgrading to our private guided skip the line Vatican City tour in depth.
Please Note: This tour is not available on Sundays and on certain Holy days throughout the year. In 2012 the Vatican will be closed on February 11, March 19, April 9, May 1, June 29, August 15 & 16, November 1, and December 8, 25, & 26
Please Note: The Sistine Chapel is not available separately but is only able to be visited as part of the tour of the Vatican Museums.
Please Note: The Vatican has a dress code. No bare shoulders, no shorts, no dresses above the knee, and no bare feet or exposed midriffs are allowed.

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