The Vatican

On this 3-hour private walking tour, explore the place where the Pope is king. With skip-the-line tickets you will enter this separate country and visit the Vatican Museums, one of the world’s largest art collections assembled in the Popes’ former palaces. This labyrinth of hundreds of galleries from ancient to modern art leads to the Sistine Chapel. After gazing at Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, site of the papal conclave, you will head directly into St. Peter’s Basilica, the largest church in the world, and see several Popes’ funerary monuments and Michelangelo’s dome and Pieta’ sculpture.

• Duration: 3 hours

• Sites visited: The Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica.