Semi-private Guided tour of Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel

Come discover the Vatican Museums and the magnificent Sistine Chapel! Inside the Vatican Museums, come with our expert local tour guide who will explain in detail the main works by the most important artists in the papal collections.

Our first stop is the Courtyard of the Pine Cone, an open space adjacent to the museum, whose name was inspired by the statue located in the center of the courtyard.

Next, in the Museo Pio Clementino, admire the Roman and Greek masterpieces preserved in the museum's 12 rooms.

Visit the Gallery of Tapestries, along with the Gallery of Maps, where you will have the opportunity to see how our dear peninsula has changed, geographically, and the traces that history has left on it.

Enter the Borgia Apartment, divided into 6 rooms and commissioned by Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI was the 214th pope of the Catholic Church, as well as the father of Cesare Borgia, a well-known condottiere remembered by the famous Florentine intellectual and writer Niccolò Machiavelli.

At the end of your tour of the Vatican Museums, you will reach the Raphael Rooms, curated and frescoed by the artist himself and his students. Be enchanted by the beauty of the "School of Athens," located in the Stanza della Segnatura.

As a second stop there will be the Sistine Chapel waiting for you. Here, you will see the hand of Michelangelo. You will find yourself in front of an unprecedented work that will leave you breathless, thanks to its harmony of colors.

If you want to learn about the art-historical side and admire its magnificence, book our guided tour of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel for a memorable experience!

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