SummaryCategory: Standard TourPrivate Guide tourKid-friendly tourSuggested starting time 09:30AM or 2.00PMNot available on Sundays and not recommended Wednesday morningsThis tour is designed to last about 3.5 hours based on the pace of our average client.Tickets requiredTickets skip line providedPayment due after confirmation from the companyDescriptionTreat yourself with a customized private tour of the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica.Visit some hidden gems of the museums and explore rooms closed to the general public at all times.Not only will you get a fascinating tour, you'll also enjoy an interactive service with a passionate tour guide who will animate the history of the magnificent artwork and cater your tour experience to your personal interests. Your personal storyteller will uncover the legends and mysteries behind the works and enlighten you on the genius of the Renaissance masters in their world-renowned masterpieces.Meet your guide at your hotel where you will be picked-up and travel together to the Vatican Museums. Skip the line for fast-track entry to the world famous Vatican museum complex, made up of galleries with an impressive amount of artwork and masterpieces from antiquity to present day.During your visit you will have a chance to see one of the world’s finest collections of sculptures, carvings, frescoes and paintings. Your expert tour guide will focus your attention on the most important masterpieces and on making this experience easy and unforgettable. Enjoy the impressive Belvedere Courtyard and then stroll through the most interesting rooms and galleries of the museum complex. Marvel at the famous Laocoon and the Belvedere Torso in the sculpture museum, deeply revered by Michelangelo and other Renaissance artists. Explore the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Maps. Be stunned by Michelangelo’s masterpieces inside the Sistine Chapel.Feel free to customize your tour with one of the following itineraries and start times: Starting at 9:30AM or 1:45PM - Hidden Gems Classic Leave the crowd behind and with your guide pass the gatekeeper to privately enter the Room of the Animals. Marvel at the stunning statues of the Vatican's "Stone Zoo". Stroll through the ever-closed Gallery of Statues to explore a fantastic collection of sculptures and ceiling partly painted by Pinturicchio. Enter the real hidden gem of the Vatican - the Cabinet of the Masks - a little room with a fantastic view of the city containing precious sculptures and mosaics. Starting at 11:45AM - Hidden Gems Renaissance Experience Experience the awe of the Vatican's renaissance treasures on this detour through the Raphel Rooms and see the frescos by the the most talented painter of the 16th C. Enter beautiful St. Peter’s Church, where the famous Baldachin by Bernini is located, and end your tour in charming St. Peter’s Square, home to the famous Egyptian obelisk that was witness to the martyrdom of St. Peter and central to Bernini’s design. The view will fill you with wonder and awe and bring to completion the life-changing experience of visiting the Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica....and now, how it works?Choose the tour, your favourite day and your favourite time (morning or afternoon, hours are general), check the number of guests and language. In this way you are going to send the REQUEST for this tour, in order to have a complete quotation and also the availability from the company for date and period requested.Quotation will include:rate for the tour guide in your languagetickets skip-line for allearphones in case you are a group over 8 people.