TOURS AND EXCURSIONS FOR POMPEII, CAPRI, NAPLES AND AMALFI COAST
Michelangelo's Pietà in the
Vatican Museums
Map with the route of the Tour
Entrance of the Vatican Museums
Map of Venice in the Gallery of Maps
Bust in the Gallery of maps
The Sistine Chapel
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DURATION: | 2 hours | |
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PRICE: | Based on the number of participants | |
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AVAILABILITY: |
All-year-round |
INCLUDED IN THE PRICE: |
Local English-speaking Guide for the 2-hour visit of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel in Rome THE ENTRANCE FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED |
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ADMISSION FOR THE VATICAN MUSEUMS:
The admission ticket to the Vatican Museums is valid for visiting the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel only on the date of purchase. Tickets aren’t refundable. ADMISSION FOR DISABLES: Wheelchairs can be reserved in advance or upon request at the “Special Permits” window in the entrance hall. Routes and toilettes for disabled visitors are also available. The opening hours are detailed below | |
Meeting with our Tour guide in the Meeting-point, which can be arranged according to guest’s requirements:
In this tour You will explore the most important cultural and religious places in the Vatican Museums within the Pio Clementino Museum, the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche (Gallery of maps), the Galleria degli Arazzi (tapestries, partly based on designs of Italian artists)., the Raphael’s rooms and finally Michelangelo’s masterpiece, the Sistine Chapel.
The Vatican Museums are very important thanks to the prestige and richness of its masterpieces as well as for their sumptuous setting. The Museums consist of a group of huge buildings and numerous rooms, galleries, salons, libraries, museums, corridors, chapels, gardens and courtyards with countless art treasures. The Museums are interesting not only for its exhibits but also for its premises. They were created because of the art ambitions of the popes who, collected antiquities and artworks since 1506 starting with Julius II.
Between 1475 and 1483, Giovanni de’ Dolci got commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV to built the Sistine Chapel. In the Chapel is located the greatest masterpiece of the Vatican Museums: The frescoes of the vault, which was painted by Michelangelo from 1508 to 1512. The most famous is the scene of the Creation of Adam.
The Rooms, four former papal living rooms, which Raphael imagined for Pope Giulio II and which has been finished by Raphael’s pupils after his death, are the most famous works of the artist. There is the Room of the Signature (1508-1511) that served as library, the room of Eliodoro (1512-1514) that served as waiting hall, the fire room (1514-1517) that served as dining room and the fourth room, the room of Constantine, where have been completed many of Raphael’s frescoes by his pupils after his death.
The Sistine Chapel and the rooms of Raphael are the furthest away from the entrance. Two ways lead there, which have both interesting things to offer. Our way leads through the Gallery of the tapestries with magnificent tapestries and the Gallery of maps, whose walls have been decorated in 1580-1583 with wonderful painted maps of the provinces of the former Vatican state, which lasted over large parts of Italy.