Vatican and Sistine Chapel Classico tour is designed for those who want to explore the world’s most fascinating independent state, led by our skilled local guides, admiring the outstanding masterpieces housed in the Vatican Museums, located within the boundaries of the tiny Vatican City State.

The Museums display works collected by the Popes for more than five centuries, including outstanding Roman statues which inspired Michelangelo, painter, sculptor and architect, a real all-round renaissance artist, like the celebrated Laocoon Group and the powerful Belvedere Torso by Apollonius.

Walking through the Gallery of Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps, built in the xv century to connect the Popes’ summer residence to the Apostolic Palace, get inside the spectacular Raphael’s Rooms, once part of the private Papal Apartments, fully covered with frescoes by the Divine Raphael and his workshop. Discover the stories and anecdotes behind the Heliodorus, the School of Athens and the Fire of Borgo frescoes.

Passing through the Borgia’s Apartments, where the Scandalous Pope Alexander VI lived, now housing the Vatican Collection of Modern Religious Art, reach and be amazed by the world famous Sistine Chapel, entirely covered with the most celebrated Michelangelo’s frescoes: the Ceiling and the Last Judgement… no words are enough to describe this masterpiece!

Skipping the line through a special shortcut, at last but not least, reach St. Peter’s basilica, the biggest church of Christendom and one of the holiest Catholic shrines, where art becomes integral part of Christian liturgy.
Admire the magnificent main altar, the Baldaquin, designed by the most famous baroque artist Giovan Lorenzo Bernini, touch the foot of St. Peter’s statue to get his blessing and get close to the Michelangelo’s masterpiece the Pietà and visit St. John Paul II’s tomb and the shrine of St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, before entering the biggest square in Rome, the magnificent baroque masterpiece St. Peter’s Square.