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Private Vatican Tour: Egyptian, Etruscan Museum & Golden Room: Transfer Included
Recommended for your Rome trip
Free Cancellation
up to 24 hours in advance
4 hours (Approx.)
Hotel pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English and 5 more
Keeping you safe during COVID-19
What you can expect during your visit
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Gear/equipment sanitized between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
Temperature checks for travelers upon arrival
Overview
Get personalized attention and access to the Vatican's Golden Room during this 4-hour tour of the Vatican Museums, including St. Peter's Basilica. Entrance fees, skip-the-line entrance, and hotel pickup via taxi included.
- Private tour ensures personalized attention and a flexible schedule
- Pickup at your hotel via taxi
- See the off-the-beaten-path Golden Room
- Skip-the-line access
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Choose between morning and afternoon departure time when booking. Be ready at your hotel for taxi pickup at 9:30am or 2pm, depending on option selected.
When you arrive at the Vatican Museums, you'll be able to skip the often long entry lines for fast track access to the popular attraction.
Follow your private guide through the maze of galleries filled with priceless works of art. Make your way to the Golden Room, an off-the-beaten path part of the museums that most visitors don't see. This part of the Georgian Etruscan Museum contains jewelry dating from the 9th to the 1st century BC.
Continue through the collection, focusing on the most important masterpieces. Visit the Belvedere Courtyard and see the Lacoon Group and the Belvedere Torso, as well as the Gallery of Maps and the Gallery of Tapestries. Follow your guide to the Sistine Chapel to learn about the meaning of Michelangelo's famous frescoes.
The private tour's last stop is St. Peter's Basilica, where you will see Bernini's Baldachin and Michelangelo's Pietà.
When you arrive at the Vatican Museums, you'll be able to skip the often long entry lines for fast track access to the popular attraction.
Follow your private guide through the maze of galleries filled with priceless works of art. Make your way to the Golden Room, an off-the-beaten path part of the museums that most visitors don't see. This part of the Georgian Etruscan Museum contains jewelry dating from the 9th to the 1st century BC.
Continue through the collection, focusing on the most important masterpieces. Visit the Belvedere Courtyard and see the Lacoon Group and the Belvedere Torso, as well as the Gallery of Maps and the Gallery of Tapestries. Follow your guide to the Sistine Chapel to learn about the meaning of Michelangelo's famous frescoes.
The private tour's last stop is St. Peter's Basilica, where you will see Bernini's Baldachin and Michelangelo's Pietà.
Itinerary
Treat yourself with a customized private tour of the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica. Visit the unique Golden Room which is mostly closed to the general public.Discover the Egyptian Museums and see its famous mummies. Enter the beautiful Golden Room, part of the Etruscan Museum, containing jewelry dating between the 9th and the 1st century BC, from the Iron Age until the progressive and definitive converging of the Etruscan cities into the structure of the Roman state. Enjoy the impressive Belvedere Courtyard and then stroll through the most interesting rooms and galleries of the museum complex. Marvel at the famous Lacoon and the Belvedere Torso at the sculpture museum, deeply revered by Michelangelo and other Renaissance artists. Explore the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of the Maps
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Admission Ticket Included
The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
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