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Vatican Early Morning Tour - Small Group

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Discover the highlights of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with an expert guide on this early access tour with a small group. Enter the Vatican Museums right as they open for the day. Enjoy the masterpieces without the bustling crowds as you follow your guide through the Belvedere Courtyard, the Gallery of Maps, the four Raphael Rooms, and more. Learn from your guide where Raphael worked the faces of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo into his frescoes. Next, head to the Sistine Chapel, visit at the most peaceful time of day. Get a full run-down of Michelangelo's frescoes, including a detailed handout, from your guide before heading in. Note: Access to St. Peter's Basilica is not Included in this tour.
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  • Skip-the-line access to Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
  • Semi Private Tour
  • Professional Guide
  • Food and Drinks
  • Hotel Pickup and Drop-off
  • Access to St. Peter's Basilica
Departure Point

viale, Viale Vaticano, 100, 00192 Roma RM, Italy Meet your guide in front of the Coffee shop.

  • Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Italy
    Marvel at the museums’ awe-inspiring art collection, world-renowned frescoes inside the Sistine Chapel, and the Renaissance era paintings in the Raphael Room with an advantage of avoiding the stressful long queue and get escorted inside the Vatican Museums through the priority access. After a regular security check, we will head towards the most important galleries and breathtaking masterpieces collection of art. At 75 meters long, the Gallery of the Tapestries is named after the elaborate Flemish tapestries that drape its walls. The Gallery of the Maps, painted between 1580 and 1585, takes its name from the 40 maps frescoed on the walls, representing each of the Italian regions and papal properties at the time of Pope Gregory XIII. Be mesmerized by the beauty contained in the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo’s undisputed masterpiece.
    90 minutes
  • Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy
    You will hear details about the election process called Conclave which ends up with white smoke from the chimney installed in the Chapel. See original "Last Judgement" and try to find Michaelangelo's face in between more than 300 painted characters.
    30 minutes
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
frankkN3574RE
30 May 2022
After planning for a year and booking a Vatican tour 3 months ago, the City Wonders company decided to cancel our tour the afternoon before the tour date. No explanation, just an email message. So my warning to fellow travelers don't believe ratings !
ericdF5709DI
18 May 2022
Be wary if you contract with this company for a Rome tour. We scheduled three tours. The 1st one, a tour of the Colosseum, was canceled the eve before because the guide contracted COVID. Understandable. What wasnt was there was no plan B. No backup guide. Just a late evening phone call that said the tour is canceled. Fine, I thought. This was our 1st of 6 days in Rome. Surely we could reschedule. Yes, but the exact tour we had signed up for was unavailable every single day. That is not understandable. We had to settle for a similar, but less desirable to us, tour . Very next day, we had a semi-private tour of St Peters Basilica. We show up 20min early. No tour guide. 15min after your was to start, no tour guide. I called the number on our confirmation email 18 times. No answer. Tried online chat. No response "busy, try again later". Finally, someone else in our group, nobody I knew, yelled she had gotten through. The guide called in with a family emergency. Again, understandable. But no backup guide, no communication of any kind. We disbanded, made the best of it and toured the Basilica on our own. I managed, after many attempts, to contact City Wonders, later that day and was told id get a full refund. Hopefully, I will. But they never reached out to us. Today we had our 3rd tour - The Vatican museums and Sistene Chapel. Elena did a wonderful job. Highly knowledgeable and highly recommended. I would not use this company again.
Kirsty S
27 Feb 2022
The Vatican is incredible but there's so much beauty that it's hard to know where to start looking without the help of an expert. We were lucky to have Hilaria as our guide on our recent tour of the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel. She's clearly extremely knowledgeable about art, given her background as an art restorer, but more importantly, she loves the contents of the Vatican Museum and that showed in her enthusiasm and the way her knowledge brought the pieces to life. There is no way I would have got as much out of my visit with a guidebook or one of those self-guided tours. Being able to have Hilaria describe the history of certain pieces and there to answer questions was a highlight of my trip to Rome.
This tour in is organized by Rome City Wonders

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