Visiting the Vatican’s highlights requires 3 hours. The Tour of the Vatican includes: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica.
The guides of our Private tours are official guides, fully authorized, highly specialized and multilingual. They will make your tour memorable!
This tour requires walking about 2 miles indoors and you cannot take shortcuts. From the Museums entrance to the Sistine Chapel takes 45 minutes upwards. Once you enter you have to go through the whole thing and there are very few places where one can sit and rest. Therefore, if you have mobility issues, we recommend using a wheelchair for this tour. The Sistine Chapel cannot be visited separately from the Vatican Museums. St. Peter’s Basilica can be visited freely. If you do so you will have to queue at the metal detectors. With the tours avoid the queues and pass directly into the Basilica.
Let’s start by saying that there is no other way to get to the Sistine Chapel than through the Vatican Museums and, mind this, what’s housed in the museums is not all about the Roman Catholic Religion.
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We will inform you about your scheduled entry slot.
We recommend that you take this tour in afternoon, around 2.00 or 2.30 pm, as this is when the place is normally least crowded, but the tour is also available in the morning.
Please arrive at the office approximately 30 minutes before scheduled entry time.
Your specialized private guide will have your skip-the-line voucher and take care of the entry formalities.
Follow your guide through the Galleries and finally arrive at the Sistine Chapel.
It’s a long walk and you see a lot of art on display.
Paintings, tapestries, frescoes, and statues dating back to different eras and made by different artists.
The subjects of these artworks are not always related to the Catholic Church, in fact you will also see ancient Roman statues, Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek artifacts, your guide will tell you about them and will always be ready to answer your questions. It’s a walk you’ll love
Sistine Chapel
Rules: No speaking, no picture, no videos.
Dress code: shoulders must be covered, skirts and shorts must cover the knees.
he guide will use illustrated panels to tell the story before entering the room.
St. Peter’s Basilica
Rules: You can speak softly, take pictures and videos.
If you have more than 5 people in your group, your guide must provide you with earphones and speak to you through a microphone.
Dress code: shoulders must be covered, skirts and shorts must cover the knees.
You can also visit the Basilica separately from the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel if you have the time. Please visit the website for the details of these two tours:
– St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican “Grottoes” and Dome.
– Vatican Gardens, Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
3 Hours - Vatican Private Tour daytime - Private guide & skip-the-line tickets included
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From 6 people onward
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€ 155.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 165.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 185.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 210.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 280.00
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1 person
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€ 510.00
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Wheelchair rental, each
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€ 30.00
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Assistant for wheelchair pushing
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€ 60.00
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Children 0/5 years, no charge
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Youngsters, 6/17 years, 20.00 € off the price
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Certified disabled, 40.00 € off the price
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Within the city, hotel train station
or vice-versa |
Per person
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Total
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8 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 152.00
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7 persons, per person
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€ 21.00
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€ 147.00
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6 persons, per person
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€ 16.00
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€ 96.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 95.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 24.00
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€ 96.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 32.00
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€ 96.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 35.00
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€ 70.00
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1 person
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€ 70.00
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€ 70.00
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Please note:
Due to limited availability of skip-the-line tickets for the Vatican and the Colosseum, in order to satisfy your requests, we often have to purchase them from resellers at a price that can be even double the official price. For this reason, your Vatican and/or Colosseum tour could end up costing you around 10/20 Euros per person more than the price listed on our website.
Certified Disabled:
Please send us a properly scanned copy of your disability certificate, not a photo taken with your mobile phone.
So if you forget to bring it with you, we will print it for you.
Please note that we cannot give you the disability discount if you do not provide us with the certificate.
Crucial: Your disability must be proven by a statement from a hospital or doctor. Duration about 5 hours including transfers.
Private guided tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica. The tour is led by a private guide, and guests are provided with skip-the-line tickets. This tour includes transfers by private car from your place of stay to the Vatican Museums, from the Vatican Museums to St. Peter’s and then back to your place of stay.
What makes visiting the Vatican difficult for people with walking aids is that they are not allowed to go down the steps that connect the Sistine Chapel to St. Peter’s Square, even if they physically could.
The Vatican Tour for people with mobility issues lasts 5 hours because we include all private car transfers for our guests throughout the tour:
○ From their place of stay to the Vatican Museums.
○ From the Vatican Museums to St. Peter’s.
○ From St. Peter’s back to their place.
The transfer from the Vatican Museums to St. Peter’s is crucial because people with walking aids are not allowed to go down the steps that connect the Sistine Chapel to St. Peter’s Square, even if they physically could.
Not being able to use this shortcut, to reach St. Peter’s, they should walk back to the entrance of the Vatican Museums and, from there, reach St. Peter’s from the outside.
Not counting the internal part of the Vatican Museums, this would be an extra mile to walk. The Vatican Tour for people with mobility issues lasts 5 hours because we include all private car transfers for our guests throughout the tour
What’s included and how this tour is handled:
Transfer by private car, private guide speaking your language and skip the line tickets.
Crucial: Your disability must be proven by a statement from a hospital or doctor.
5 Hours
Special Vatican Private Tour for people using walking aids All transfers, private guide and skip-the-line tickets included |
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From 6 people onward
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€ 210.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 235.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 270.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 310.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 415.00
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1 person
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€ 690.00
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Wheelchair rental, each
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€ 30.00
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Assistant for wheelchair pushing
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€ 60.00
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Youngsters, 0/17 years, 20.00 € off the price
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Certified disabled, 40.00 € off the price
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Within the city, hotel train station
or vice-versa |
Per person
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Total
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8 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 152.00
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7 persons, per person
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€ 21.00
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€ 147.00
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6 persons, per person
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€ 16.00
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€ 96.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 95.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 24.00
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€ 96.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 32.00
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€ 96.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 35.00
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€ 70.00
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1 person
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€ 70.00
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€ 70.00
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Please note:
Due to limited availability of skip-the-line tickets for the Vatican and the Colosseum, in order to satisfy your requests, we often have to purchase them from resellers at a price that can be even double the official price. For this reason, your Vatican and/or Colosseum tour could end up costing you around 10/20 Euros per person more than the price listed on our website.
Certified Disabled:
Please send us a properly scanned copy of your disability certificate, not a photo taken with your mobile phone.
So if you forget to bring it with you, we will print it for you.
Please note that we cannot give you the disability discount if you do not provide us with the certificate.
Vatican Gardens, Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
This tour can’t be beat! The best way to visit the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel but not only, before doing so, you tour the Vatican Gardens on an open deck electric bus! However, there is a catch, availability is very limited, so be sure to book well in advance.
Our office is very close to the entrance to the Vatican Museums.
This is where you will meet your private guide, who will have your very special tickets and will accompany you to the Vatican Museums. The guide will take care of the formalities and will introduce you to the Vatican representative who will accompany you to the bus.
The guide will not accompany you on the tour of the Vatican Gardens, as the bus capacity is very limited, but you will have audio guides.
The Vatican representative will help you board the bus, show you how to use the audio guides and explain that you cannot get up from your seat while the bus is in motion, but you can stand up when it stops.
However, you are not allowed to get off the bus until the tour ends.
At the end of the tour of the Vatican Gardens, you will be directed to the Courtyard of the (picture gallery) which is where you’ll meet again with your private guide and start the tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.
The guide will take you through the Gallery of Candelabra, Gallery of Tapestries, Gallery of Geographic Maps and finally you’ll arrive to the Sistine Chapel.
Please keep in mind that they want complete silence in the Sistine Chapel and therefore the guide will not be able to describe it to you once you’ll be in it, but will have to tell you about it, with the help of pictures, before you actually get there. Also, you can take all the pictures you want in the Gardens and the Museums, but not in the Sistine Chapel. Those who insist on speaking or taking pictures get thrown out.
Returning to the entrance you will find yourself in the same buildings, but at a lower level, so you will see more interesting things that your guide will obviously not fail to explain. You will pass through the Christian Museum, the Profane Museum, the Clementine Gallery, the Ethnological Museum, the Carriage Pavilion and more…
You will finally go back to where you started, and we are sure that at this point you will want to have a nice lunch your guide will be happy to recommend a nice place nearby.
Unfortunately, as much as we would like, we cannot include St. Peter’s Basilica on this tour, but for this we have a special tour that includes St. Peter’s Basilica, the Papal Tombs, and the Dome.
3 Hours
Vatican Gardens & Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica Private guide & skip-the-line tickets included |
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From 6 people onward
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€ 185.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 205.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 230.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 250.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 340.00
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1 person
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€ 555.00
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Youngsters, 0/178 years, 20.00 € off the price
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Within the city, hotel train station
or vice-versa |
Per person
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Total
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8 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 152.00
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7 persons, per person
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€ 21.00
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€ 147.00
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6 persons, per person
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€ 16.00
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€ 96.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 95.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 24.00
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€ 96.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 32.00
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€ 96.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 35.00
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€ 70.00
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1 person
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€ 70.00
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€ 70.00
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Please note:
Due to limited availability of skip-the-line tickets for the Vatican and the Colosseum, in order to satisfy your requests, we often have to purchase them from resellers at a price that can be even double the official price. For this reason, your Vatican and/or Colosseum tour could end up costing you around 10/20 Euros per person more than the price listed on our website.
Certified Disabled:
Please send us a properly scanned copy of your disability certificate, not a photo taken with your mobile phone.
So if you forget to bring it with you, we will print it for you.
Please note that we cannot give you the disability discount if you do not provide us with the certificate.
7:15 am
Meet your guide at Largo del Colonnato, 5.
There is no other way to skip this line, which is only caused by security checks, but enter the seat as early as 8:00 am.
You reach the place on your own and you are on your own again at the end of the tour. However, you have the option of adding a one-way or round-trip transfer service for an additional fee.
This would be convenient if you stay away from the Vatican and have more than 3 people in your group, as most taxis take a maximum of 3 passengers.
Firstly, we climb up to the Dome. There might be a bit of a line to get into the elevator in the high season, please be patient.
The lift takes you to the terrace, from where you can enjoy a beautiful view of Rome, saving the climb of the spiral staircase of 231 steps, known as “The snail of Saint Andrew”.
Besides enjoying the view of Rome, which is surely more impressive from the top of the Dome anyway, you can get some refreshments at the local coffee shop. If the climb to the top isn’t for you, maybe you can at least climb the two ramps that will allow you to look inside the Basilica from above.
Not everyone knows that the architecture of St. Peter’s dome was designed by Michelangelo and is considered his greatest architect’s masterpiece. However, he’s not responsible for the mosaics that
decorate the dome, they were made by the Vatican Mosaic Studio, established by Pope Gregory XIII in 1572 and still in operation, based on designs by the famous painter Cavalier d’Arpino. Once back down from the Dome, your guide will take you on a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica focused on its highlights.
St. Peter’s is the largest church in the world, took 120 years to build, it’s almost 400 years old and full of priceless works of art which, of course, your guide will be telling you about.
Once back down from the Dome, we tour the Basilica. The highlights are the Pietà, sculpted by Michelangelo at the age of 24 and numerous works by Bernini, such as the Canopy over the Papal Altar, the funeral
monuments to the Popes Urban VIII and Alexander VII, the “Throne of St. Peter”, and more…
Leaving St. Peter’s, you’ll descend to the “Grottoes”, where 91 Popes are buried, starting from the first one, St. Peter.
Once out of the Basilica and the “Grottoes”, you’ll stop in St. Peter’s Square, designed by Bernini, and your guide will conclude this amazing 3-hour tour explaining the church’s façade, the obelisk, and the
square itself which was designed by Bernini.
3 Hours
St. Peter's Basilica, Papal Tombs and Dome - Private guide & skip-the-line tickets included |
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From 6 people onward
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€ 90.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 100.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 115.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 130.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 195.00
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1 person
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€ 390.00
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Wheelchair rental, each
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€ 30.00
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Assistant for wheelchair pushing
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€ 60.00
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Youngsters, 0/17 y.o. discount off the price
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€ 5.00
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Within the city, hotel train station
or vice-versa |
Per person
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Total
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8 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 152.00
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7 persons, per person
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€ 21.00
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€ 147.00
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6 persons, per person
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€ 16.00
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€ 96.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 95.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 24.00
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€ 96.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 32.00
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€ 96.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 35.00
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€ 70.00
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1 person
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€ 70.00
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€ 70.00
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This tour is available on Fridays and Saturdays from April to October
Visit of the Vatican Museums after sunset, 2 hours. Visits available every Friday between 14th April – 28th October. Opening times from 7:00pm – 11:00pm (latest entrance at 9:30 pm and latest exit from the Galleries is at 10.30 pm). Does not include St Peter’s Basilica as it closes at 6.30pm. This is a great opportunity, especially if you shouldn’t have the time for visiting the place during the day.
The tour itinerary includes the Pius-Clementine Museum, the Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps Galleries, the octagonal courtyard, plus the famous Sistine Chapel, and more..
We can also combine an afternoon golf cart tour of Rome beforehand if you want, of either 3 or 4 hours. In this case you would be picked up from your hotel (or place of choice within the golf cart range).
At the end of the golf cart tour we will take you to meet your guide at our offices near the entrance to the Museum.
One way or round trip private transfer is available at an additional cost – return to hotel or place of your choice.
2 Hours
Vatican Private Tour by night - Private guide & skip-the-line tickets included |
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From 6 people onward
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€ 155.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 165.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 185.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 210.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 280.00
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1 person
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€ 510.00
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Wheelchair rental, each
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€ 30.00
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Assistant for wheelchair pushing
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€ 60.00
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Children 0/5 years, no charge
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Youngsters, 6/17 years, 20.00 € off the price
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Certified disabled, 40.00 € off the price
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Within the city, hotel train station
or vice-versa |
Per person
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Total
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8 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 152.00
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7 persons, per person
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€ 21.00
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€ 147.00
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6 persons, per person
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€ 16.00
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€ 96.00
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5 persons, per person
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€ 19.00
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€ 95.00
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4 persons, per person
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€ 24.00
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€ 96.00
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3 persons, per person
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€ 32.00
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€ 96.00
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2 persons, per person
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€ 35.00
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€ 70.00
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1 person
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€ 70.00
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€ 70.00
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Please note:
Due to limited availability of skip-the-line tickets for the Vatican and the Colosseum, in order to satisfy your requests, we often have to purchase them from resellers at a price that can be even double the official price. For this reason, your Vatican and/or Colosseum tour could end up costing you around 10/20 Euros per person more than the price listed on our website.
Certified Disabled:
Please send us a properly scanned copy of your disability certificate, not a photo taken with your mobile phone.
So if you forget to bring it with you, we will print it for you.
Please note that we cannot give you the disability discount if you do not provide us with the certificate.
Opening days and times 2024
From Monday to Saturday
08:00 a.m. – 07.00 p.m. (final entry 05.00 p.m.)
Every last Sunday of the month
(Provided this does not coincide with Easter Sunday, 29 June Sts.Peter and Paul, 25 December Christmas Day, and 26 December Feast of St. Stephen)
09:00 a.m. – 02.00 p.m. (final entry 12.30 p.m.)
Free entry
Visitors are required to leave the halls 30 minutes before museum closing time
Closures 2024
Sunday (except the last Sunday of Each month),
1 and 6 January, 19 March, 1 April, 1 May, 29 June, 14 & 15 August, 1 November, 25 and 26 December
Access to the Vatican is permitted only to visitors wearing proper attire, skirts and shorts must cover the knee and shoulders must be covered .
Tickets for the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel are valid only for the date they were purchased for and are non-refundable.
Difficulty levels
Generally easy, with occasional free time for rest. Walk and/or climb up and down some stairs only if you want to.
Moderately paced, minimal walking required, with occasional free time for rest. May include climbing up and down some stairs and walking, over primarily level ground, for up to half an hour at a time. Moderate car/minivan travel.
Moderately paced with occasional free time for rest. Guests should be able to walk one to three miles, which may include climbing up or down from one to four flights of stairs and walking over primarily level ground. Ride an electric bicycle or a Vespa scooter making frequent stops. Standing up to one hour or more may be required. Moderate car/minivan travel.
Moderately paced with occasional free time for rest. Requires walking longer distances, climbing up and down stairs and hills, possibly on uneven terrain. Guests should be able to walk two to three miles over uneven terrain and/or cobblestones. Moderate car/minivan travel. Standing up to one hour or more may be required.
Moderately paced with occasional free time for rest. Extended car/minivan travel, from two to four hours. Guests should be able to walk two to three miles over uneven terrain and/or cobblestones, climbing up and down stairs and hills. Guests should be able to
walk two to three miles over uneven terrain and/or cobblestones. Wheelchair/walker usable.
Sistine Chapel
Rules: No speaking, no picture, no videos.
Dress code: shoulders must be covered, skirts and shorts must cover the knees.
The guide will use illustrated panels to tell the story before entering the room.
St. Peter’s Basilica
Rules: You can speak softly, take pictures and videos.
If you have more than 5 people in your group, your guide must provide you with earphones and speak to you through a microphone.
Dress code: shoulders must be covered, skirts and shorts must cover the knees.
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