Vatican Splendor – Private Half Day Tour

Let’s enjoy a 4 hours private tour inside the Vatican City. One of our driver will pick you up at your hotel or by the ship and will drive you to the main entrance of the Vatican Museums, the largest museum in the World. Your tour guide will meet you here and regardless of the long line you will enter the Vatican Museums thanks to the V.I.P. tickets.

You will be given a deep explanation of thousands of years of history and you will walk through the Roman section, the Galleries and the Rooms painted by Raphael, the Divine to end in the Sistine Chapel, the masterpiece by Michelangelo as a painter. In the Sistine Chapel you will admire the beautiful ceiling Michelangelo painted from year 1508 to 1512 completely alone, where the World renowned “Creation of Adam” is. The tour guide will explain all the details of this impressive fresco and after that you will experience the Lapislazzuli made “Last Judgment” where Michelangelo painted is self portrait as signature of this immense work. After the Sistine Chapel, in Vatican City you will have access to St. Peter Basilica, Michelangelo work of art as an Architect and you will experience entering the biggest Christian Church in the World.

Among the many works of art you will have the chance to contemplate the Masterpiece of all the Masterpieces: The Pietà by Michelangelo. In one 4 hour private tour you will have experienced Michelangelo as a painter, as an architect and as a sculptor and now you will be able to tell your friends why he was called “The Genius”. After the visit of the Church you will guide to St. Peter Square passing by the Swiss Guards. From the Vatican Square your private English speaking guide will point you out the window from where every Sunday Morning the Pope gives the blessing “urbi et orbi” and will show you the architectural wonders of the colonnade by Bernini. Here you will leave the guide and will proceed the day at your leisure.