A complete and in depth private guided tour of the most important parts of the Vatican Museums including Museo Pio Clementino, Gallery of Maps, Raphael's Rooms and the Sistine Chapel and many more.
Visit to one of Italy's most treasured areas: The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, admire priceless frescoes and sculptures accompanied with an official certified tour guide that recounts the stories behind Raphael's Rooms, the Gallery of the Maps, the Round Hall and many more halls and galleries of this magnificent place including Michelangelo's iconic works: the Creation of Adam and the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
With 20,000 works are on display, the Vatican Museums display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.
Founded in 1771 Clement XIV and enlarged by his successor Pius VI, Pio-Clementino Museum houses works of Greek and Roman sculpture.
Commissioned in 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII, Gallery of the Maps contains a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting point: Vatican Hills Travel Agency: Via Sebastiano Veniero, 15, 00192 Roma RM. In front of the Grand Vatican Museum Entrance (where it is written MVSEI VATICANI on the top of the big door) there is a street. Cross that street and you will find yourself at the top of steps leading down. Walk down those stairs and immediately turn right and look for number 15. Meeting time: 15 minutes in advance of your start time.