Private Rome Masterclass: Vatican City, Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica Tour

Accompanied by knowledgeable guides, traverse the hallowed halls of the Vatican, marvelling at Michelangelo's masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel. The early entrance option at Vatican museums (7:45 AM tour) will lead you behind the doors of Catholicism in the most exclusive way with basically no-one around before the big crowd, for a complete different level of visit.

Being the burial place of St Peter Rome, the Vatican has always been considered a holy city, but besides that, its museum is a chest of countless masterpieces: the astonishing gallery of statues, the fascinating gallery of maps, the gallery of tapestries and the Raphaels rooms. During your visit to the Vatican Museums, you will have the opportunity to learn about the great artists who helped embellish one of the most fascinating sovereign states in the world.

Prepare yourselves as you enter the Sistine Chapel and lift your head up to probably the most-famous and most-admired ceiling in the world and immerse yourselves into the “last judgment”, adorned by Michelangelo’s life-like, potent figures of Adam, God and Saints, and try to spot the artist’s self portrait on the torso of Saint Peter! Here the conclaves of cardinals have come together periodically, throughout the centuries, to elect a new pope, and Pope John Paul II called it the “Holy Spirit’s place of action”.

You will finish your tour with a special visit inside St. Peter’s Basilica, where you can admire the incredible mosaics, Michelangelo’s Pietà, and Bernini’s Baldachin in all of their glory.