Tour Description:

Take a morning or afternoon tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel - and jump the queue by booking ahead. You'll enjoy a private guided tour of the Vatican and see Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes, without wasting time waiting in line.

Upon arrival at the gates of the Museums, your guide will lead you into the Courtyard of the Pine Cone where you will se the ancient fountain of the first Basilica of St. Peter. The tour continues to the Pio-Clementine Museum, with its collection of Classical Roman and Greek Art, the most complete in the world.

You will visit the Cortyard of the Belvedere, the museums' heart, with its statues of Apollo, Laocoon and the Apoxiomenos by Lysippus. You will cross the Room fo the Animals and the Hall of Muses with its famous Torso, the Greek Cross Room, the Gallery of Candelabra, the Gallery of Tapistries and the Gallery of Geographical Maps reaching the Rooms of Raphael. Your will stop longer here to enjoy the view of the Parnassus, the School of Athens and other masterpieces of the greatest painter of the Renaissance.

A narrow passageway will bring you to the breathtaking Sistine Chapel with its magnificent fresco by Michelangelo, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio.

The tour will continue to the Basilica of St. Peter, the Holy Grottoes, where the Popes are buried and finish in the Square, impressive work by Gianlorenzo Bernini.