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We can take you on a tour of the Vatican.
But we won't take through the place in a golf cart!
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We can arrange
your guided tour of the Vatican at the end or before
your tour by golf cart or on a different day.
You can meet your
guide at the Vatican for your tour or we can arrange
your round trip transfer from your hotel.
If you just want to
walk around the place on your own we can drop you off at
the Vatican at the end of your golf cart tour or we can
meet you there at the end of your Vatican tour and take
you around Rome in our golf cart.
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The Vatican is a really vast place.
Though the smallest in the world, it's still a country
of its own and it takes about 3 hours to visit its major
highlights.
The Vatican tour includes the Vatican
Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.
Though a lot of people think the Sistine
Chapel is the most important thing to see there but it
isn't true. The main attraction, the one not to miss, is
really St. Peter's Basilica. If the Basilica hadn't been
built, none of the rest would be there. St. Peter's
Basilica can be visited separately from the Vatican
Museums and the Sistine Chapel. In order to get to the
Sistine Chapel you have to go through a large part of
the Vatican Museums which consist in 1400 rooms packed
with statues, paintings tapestries, frescoes etcetera,
etcetera.
There is no way you can rush through the
Vatican Museums and get to the Sistine Chapel quickly,
the place is huge and always packed with people.
St. Peter's Basilica can be visited
freely, you don't have to buy any admission fee, but
since 9/11 they make you walk through metal detectors
and that causes the formation of lines which sometimes
can be really long. Depending on day and the time of the
day you get there, you may end up standing in line even
more than one hour.
If you are a disabled person, or if there
is a disabled person in your group, they will let you
avoid the line and walk in through a secondary passage.
The Sistine Chapel cannot be visited
separately from the Vatican Museums.
If it is in your intentions to visit the
Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel you better make a
reservation to enter the place without having to stand
in line. Click on the following link to purchase your
ticket and reserve your entry time:
http://biglietteriamusei.vatican.va/musei/tickets/index.html |
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Vatican Museums - Raphael's Rooms - The school of Athens
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Tour of the Vatican |
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Vatican half day tour |
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We really hope you'll be spending at least two
days in Rome and not try to see everything in one day obtaining
sore feet, a headache and not retaining much. We sincerely
hope you'll spend at least two days in Rome and visit he Vatican
on the second day, after the tour of will have prepared you for
the massive amount of art works you'll see at the Vatican. Again
we would like to remind you that the Vatican is not just a
chapel with fresco paintings made by Michelangelo. We want run
the risk of boring you by saying that if you just have one day
in Rome your interaction with the Vatican should be limited to
the visit of St. Peter's Basilica and we can promise it'll
impress you much more than the Sistine Chapel! If Michelangelo's
works is want you're looking for, it'll surely be useful for you
to know that he did not consider himself a painter, but a
sculpture and an architect and St'. Peter's Dome is his greatest
work in architecture while his first masterpiece, the Pietà is
housed in St. Peter's Basilica. Description of
the Vatican tour:
A
professional guide meet you at the entrance of the Vatican
Museum. The guide will tour you through the following itinerary: Pigna
Courtyard,
Lapidaria Gallery ,
Belvedere Courtyard, Octagonal Courtyard, Pius-Clementine Museum,
Candelabra Gallery, Gallery of Tapestries, Gallery of Maps, Raphael's Rooms and,
at the end, the Sistine Chapel. You'll walk directly
into St. Peter's Basilica From the Sistine, saving time and a
long walk back to the entrance through more museums and the walk around
the outside of the Vatican City to get to St. Peter's
Square where you would have to line up to go through the metal detectors
and enter
St. Peter's. |
Vatican Museums - Gold statue of the Good Shepherd
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You'll
spend about two hours between the Vatican Museums Sistine before
you'll get to St. Peter's. Touring St. Peter's Basilica will
require another hour and you'll
see the
famous Pietà by Michelangelo, the funeral monuments to the Popes
who are buried in the Basilica, made by the most famous artists,
the mosaics, the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the Bernini's Canopy,
St. Peter's Statue, the Peter's Throne and
many other fantastic works of art.
The
best time to visit the Vatican, because it's less crowded, is in the afternoon and the
best days normally are Tuesday, and Thursday.
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The price for the Vatican tour is 180
Euros for groups up to 4 people and 220 Euros for groups
up to 7 people.
The average additional price for the
round trip transfer by private car from your hotel is 100 Euros.
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The tour of the Vatican for
the handicapped |
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The Vatican and the disabled |
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Entrance fees
Free
admission at the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.
People with permanent disabilities
and one person who accompanies them, do not have to
pay the admission fee to enter the Vatican Museums.
If the disability isn't obvious
though, then it must be proved by a certificate.
Wheel chair
If you have have problems walking and standing
for a long time, you can use a wheel chair. Wheel
chairs are available
free of any charge at the Vatican Museums.
You cannot
reserve for a wheel chair and consequently if a
wheel chair isn't available at the time you enter
the Vatican Museums you'll just have
to wait for someone to bring one back.
These
wheel chairs though, can only be used in the Museums
and the Sistine Chapel, you cannot take the wheel
chair with you to St. Peter's
Basilica, therefore you'll either have to skip
St. Peter's Basilica or walk it. Or rent a wheel
chair to take to the Vatican with you.
Permanent disabilities
We are sure that those with serious
walking problems will come prepared and will have
their own wheel chair, but otherwise we'll be happy
to help them rent one!
Rent a wheel chair
If your disability is such that you
cannot walk through St. Peter's you'll have to rent
a wheel chair for this tour. If you don't know where
to rent a wheel chair from, we can help you. We can
get you a wheel chair to use for the whole
tour of the Vatican.
The cost of renting the wheel chair
is 25 Euros.
We can get you an electric scooter
as well, but it's more complicated to get
around the Vatican in a scooter. The wheel chair
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Vatican Museums opening
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Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel,
opening schedule, year 2013.
Open Monday through Saturday and the last Sunday of each
month.
The Ticket Office is open
from 9 am to 4 pm. The Museums close at 6 pm.
The Vatican Museums and
Sistine Chapel are closed during the following holidays:
Sundays, except for the last Sunday of each month, unless it
coincides with one of the holidays here below:
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January 1, (New Year)
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January 6 (Epiphany)
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February 11 (The Signing
of the Lateran Pacts)
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March 19 (St. Joseph's
Day)
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Easter - Easter Monday
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May 1 (St. Joseph
Artisan)
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Forty days after Easter,
on a Thursday (Ascension Thursday)
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June 29 (St. Peter and
Paul’s Day
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August 14, 15 (Assumption
of Mary)
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November 1 (All Saints)
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December 25 (Christmas)
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December 26 (St.
Steven’s)
The closed sections of the
Museums are indicated at the entrance.
Access to the Vatican is permitted only to visitors wearing
proper attire.
The admission ticket to the Vatican Museums is valid for
visiting the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel only on
the date of purchase.
Tickets are not refundable. |
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Skip the line!
Make your own reservation with the Vatican directly!
Guides can't make
you skip the line, do that for yourself, just click here:
http://biglietteriamusei.vatican.va/musei/tickets/index.html
make your reservation
and then pick your guide! |
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How you should dress when visiting
the Vatican: Saint Peter's Basilica, Sistine Chapel and Vatican
Museums.
The dress code
applies also to
the
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WEARING PROPER ATTIRE IS A MUST!
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Something you need to be
aware of is that there are monitors
outside both St. Peter's and the Vatican Museums, both places have a very strict dress code: no skirts
above the knee, no shorts, no bare shoulders (tank tops or
sleeveless blouses are banned) and it's preferable to wear shoes.
Better not wear flip-flops, also because they're not that
comfortable on marble floors... You will not be
allowed inside the basilica if you are not dressed appropriately.
Slacks and jeans, however, are permitted and so are shorts, but below the
knee also for men in the months of July and August. If you are out sightseeing
in shorts, miniskirts, tank tops, sleeveless blouses, etc., and wish
to enter a church, you must be dressed appropriately. Monitor are
inside the church and the Sistine as well and they have the right to refuse entrance,
and accompany you outside, if in
their opinion the visitor is dressed inappropriately. You can get
around this carrying long pants and a shirt/blouse with
sleeves in a bag or backpack so that when you wish to enter a
church, you can slip these garments on over your inappropriate
attire before you enter.
Strict dress codes are especially
adhered to at St. Peter's, so it's not even worth trying to enter
wearing short skirts, shorts, or sleeveless tops. You will surely be
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Again, no shorts, or sleeveless tops, but it’s okay to
wear jeans. In case you haven't been foresighted enough to carry
additional apparel with you and you happen to be at the Vatican
wearing inappropriate clothes you can still buy disposable pants
and/or t-shirts and scarves on sale in the souvenir shops just
outside St. Peter's. In addition to all of this, keep in mind that
during your visit to the Vatican you'll be in a sovereign country
regulated by it's own rules, where the laws of Italy or those of your own
country do not apply! No smoking anywhere in the Vatican! |
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All of the above
does not mean you have to dress up like you were going to a party, you just need to be covered
and decent.
You might be dressed in rags, but
as long as your
sinful flesh is covered, you'll be admitted in! |
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