First Entry in the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel in a sharing tour with a tour of Castel Gandolfo after your visit of the Vatican Museums and Sistine chapel. We offer an early visit in the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel, you'll access to the priority line at 7:30am and enjoy an explanation of the Sistine Chapel as no talking is allowed inside the Chapel, you will enter at 8:00am,one hour prior the general opening! Your guide will walk you through the amazing Vatican Galleries and Sistine Chapel and share many stories on Raphael & Michelangelo. Right after you will boars a Vatican train and head to Castel Gandolfo where you will visit on an electric bus the Baroque Barberini Gardens and the Pope Palace, an audioguide will be provided. Castel Gandolfo is a charming village with many local shops & delicious restaurants to enjoy after your tour in the Pope's Summer Residence. A great chance to visit the Vatican in a day & Rome countryside. You'll receive a flexible return ticket.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔  Castel Gandolfo ticket
✔  Vatican Museums live guide
✔  Audioguide
✔  Round Trip train ticket
✔  Vatican Museums ticket
✔  Eco Bus tour
✔  Tour host
✖  tips
✖  food
Departure & Return
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Itinerary
1
Vatican City Your tour will start from our office in Via Vespasiano 28 at 7.15

Duration:  10 minutes

2
Vatican Museums Terrace with a panoramic view of the St. Peter's Dome and the Vatican Gardens

Duration:  20 minutes

3
Vatican Museums Vatican Museums and Upper Galleries, including the one of the Maps, Tapestries and Candelabra. The galleries are connecting the north section of the Vatican Palace with the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica of St. Peter’s. The rooms preserved many roman statues discovered during the excavations and many spectacular painted rooms.

Duration:  40 minutes

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Sistine Chapel Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with the Frescoes painted in the 1500s for the Pope Julius II and Paul III; Michelangelo first painted the Ceiling where he represented the Creation of the World, from the Genesis book, and stories of Noah’s life. The Renaissance “Genius” when he was 61 years old he will come back to paint in five years only Last Judgement on the wall behind the altar.

Duration:  30 minutes

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Castel Gandolfo Visit the Pope Residence at Castel Gandolfo, you will admire one of the most beautiful gardens in the world with an audio guide on our Eco Open Bus. You will enjoy a panoramic ride of the Roman Countryside and reach in about 30 minutes the charming village of Castel Gandolfo renown for the Pope's' residence and for the delicious local food served by local restaurants. You will visit the Baroque Barberini Gardens on an electric bus with your audio-guide and access also inside the Pope's Palace with beautiful rooms decorated with precios art-crafts and with the Popes Portraits representing many important Popes including the Pope Julius the II who commissioned the Sistine Chapel to Michelangelo. You will receive a flexible return ticket that will allow to spend some free time in Castel Gandolfo enjoying the local shops and food and the panoramic view over the Lake.

Duration:  3 hours

Additional info
•  Wheelchair accessible
•  Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
•  Service animals allowed
•  Public transportation options are available nearby
•  Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
•  Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
•  All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
•  Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
•  Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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