VATICAN CITY & SISTINE CHAPEL (3/4 hours or fullday tour):
Vatican Museum (including Sistine Chapel)
Basilica of Saint Peter (inside)
Vatican gardens (optional)
Pictures gallery (optional)
Egyptian collection (optional)
Dome of St. Peter's Basilica (optional)
Tomb of Saint Peter (optional)
One of the MUST if you want to have a complete idea of Rome and its History. Rome wouldn't be Rome without the presence of the Papacy.
Nowadays Vatican is a totaly independent country within the territory of Rome and it's the smallest and one of the richest country in the whole world and it's hosting some of the most precious pieces of art such as Sistine Chapel painted by the great Michelangelo and Raphael's rooms painted by Raphael himself.
Our tour will start from the Vatican Museums: we enter with reservation to skip the line of visitors and we walk though the statue gallery and the tapestries gallery in order to reach first the Raphael's rooms and than the Sistine Chapel.
From the Sistine Chapel we will use a short cut (available just for the guided tours) in order to reach the most important catholic church in the world: Saint Peter's Basilica.
Optional to be add to this tour: Visit of the Vatican Gardens by a small open bus, visit of the picture-gallery of the Vatican Museums, visit of the egyptian collection of the Vatican Museum, visit of the Dome of the St Peter's Basilica, visit of the tomb of St. Peter.