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Skip the Line: Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tour + St. Peter's Basilica Access

Classic visit of the Vatican covering the Highlights
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Looking for an enjoyable, classic tour covering the highlights of Vatican City? What about fast Skip the Line access? This is the tour for you.In groups.. Read more

  • Skip the Line access.

  • Our guides are all Vatican experts.

  • Comfortable groups of 20 or less.

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Children
(7 - 18)
09 january 2023
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Skip the Line: Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tour + St. Peter's Basilica Access

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About the tour

Looking for an enjoyable, classic tour covering the highlights of Vatican City? What about fast Skip the Line access? This is the tour for you.

In groups of 20 people or less, our insider guides will lead you straight to the most important areas of the Vatican Museums. This classic itinerary of the must-see sights includes stops in the Pinecone Courtyard, the Belvedere Courtyard, Room of the Muses, the Round Room, the Candelabra Gallery, Gallery of the Tapestries and Gallery of the Maps.

This tour culminates inside the museums at the Sistine Chapel. Rules are rules, and your guide will be unable to speak while you are inside. However, your insider guide will prepare you for your visit to this word wonder beforehand.

After free time in the Sistine Chapel - you'll be able choose to end your visit at the Vatican Museums entrance or continue to explore on your own.

At the conclusion of your tour, you will enjoy skip-the-line access to St. Peter's Basilica, excluding Wednesdays and special events.

Daily except Sunday

2.5 hours - departure Various

English


what’s included
  • Skip the Line Access to the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel 
  • Entrance tickets
  • Insider Guide
  • Small Groups of 20 or less
  • Headsets
  • Access to St. Peter's Basilica (excluding Wednesdays and special events)
what’s excluded
  • Food & Beverage
  • Tips
Eugenio Ferrari

Google 19 Sep, 2024

The guide was prepared and fun

The guide was prepared and fun The radio system worked for me Im italian his accent didnt bother me but my wife american struggled somewhat Museum was run at high pace but thats understandable plan for a guided fast visit and a solo slow one Recommended

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Itinerary

Starting Point

*THIS VOUCHER IS NOT A TICKET*

*DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REDEEM THIS VOUCHER DIRECTLY AT THE VATICAN MUSEUMS*

Plan on arriving to our meeting point at least 15 minutes in advance of your selected departure time. Meet our representative on the steps in front of Via Tunisi, 4. The steps are located at the corner with Via Sebastiano Veniero. Your Ticket Host will be holding a flag with the green EcoArt logo.


Ending Point

Vatican Museums or St. Peter's Basilica

Itineraries vary from day to day and at the discretion of your guide who will adapt your route.


This itinerary covers the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. Other stops include but are not limited to: Pinecone Courtyard, Belvedere Courtyard, Room of the Muses, the Round Room, Candelabra Gallery, Gallery of the Tapestries and the Gallery of the Maps.


When available,Skip the Line Access to St. Peter's Basilica will be automatically provided at no extra cost. No guided tour will be provided. Please note that the Basilica is a separate venue to the Vatican Museums, is free to enter and does not require a ticket. It is not possible to always guarantee access to the Basilica, which may close with little or no notice.

Additional information
  • Comfortable shoes are recommended.
  • Leave big backpacks at your hotel! Only small purses are permitted inside the Museums.
  • Something to cover your knees and shoulders.
  • Photos are permitted is almost all rooms of the Vatican Museums, except for the Sistine Chapel. No bulky or clearly professional photographic or video equipment (especially tripods or large videocameras, equipment backpacks) will be permitted inside the Museums.

Daily except Sunday

  • We are unfortunately unable to accomodate guests with wheelchairs.
  • Guests must be able to climb and descend stairs on their own.
  • *THIS VOUCHER IS NOT A TICKET* You must redeem this voucher at the meeting time and location designed on this voucher, with one of our designed Ticket Coordinators.
  • It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes.
  • Large bags and backpacks must be checked in.
  • To enter the Vatican Museums, shoulders and knees must be covered.
  • We are unfortunately unable to accomodate guests with wheelchairs.
  • Guests must be able to climb and descend stairs on their own.

Tour goes forward rain or shine! Your Vatican Tour may be cancelled for a full refund or may be switched to a different date/time as long as your request is received no later than 24 hours before your original departure time and date. Multiple changes are permitted. To request a cancellation or change of time/date, send an e-mail to info@ecoarttravel.com.

Reviews
hardtobeatwales
TripAdvisor
22 May, 2019
Outstanding

We pre-booked this tour as it included the 3 things we really wanted to see. I compared the price & tour content with so many other tour companies but this seemed by far the best. I wasn't let down! We met the group opposite the entrance to the Vatican Museums in a quite area so we could actually hear our guide. So many other tours start right in the crowd and seemed pretty stressful. I learnt so much but without feeling like I was being read a script. Our guide's passion & enthusiasm was contagious. She obviously loves what she does (or is a great actress!). There was just the right balance of historical facts & being shown personal favourite parts of the tour. There is too much history & story to think you can just walk around & "look at pretty things". I would advise this tour to everyone! We stayed for another few hours wandering around & looking back at things we'd just learnt. We also chose to climb the stairs up the dome which was incredible. *they only accept cash to go up the dome but the souvenir shop at the queue entrance were happy to do cash back for a €0.50 fee. Definitely worth it. We can't thank you enough for your charm, wit & knowledge!


cicileb
TripAdvisor
18 Apr, 2019
Vatican with EcoArt and Marina

Fantastic tour with a really fantastic guide. Really good english spoken guide, with a lot of expertise in The history of The Vatican. Present and sweet Would choose Marina again


Chris V
TripAdvisor
04 Apr, 2019
A Must-do Tour

This guided tour really added to our Vatican visit. We had originally bought tickets only but decided at the last minute to upgrade to a guided tour. We emailed EcoArt to make the change and received a call within minutes. They gladly made the change for us. Stefano, our tour guide, was extremely knowledgeable and did a great job of guiding us through the highlights of a 3-hour visit to the Vatican. We highly recommend EcoArt!


maryhb668hm
TripAdvisor
04 Apr, 2019
Vatican/Sistine chapel/st Peters basilica tour

Ariana our guide was amazing. The tour group was small which was good and she explained everything so well that it made the visit even more impressive


mslilia17
TripAdvisor
15 Mar, 2019
unforgettable tour

We enjoyed the tour very much , and all this because We were lucky to have a very knowledgeable and professional guide Stefano ! With his detailed explanation and great sense of humour all the tour went quickly and very interesting - i’ve got a lot of new information and could understand more deeply the most famous paintings and sculptures . Sistine Chapel is the masterpiece by all means and for me it was very special that before visiting it Stefano explained us every detail of the works inside. Very big thanks to him and company for organising such an interesting tour.



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