Tour Description
A journey among masterpieces!
Involve your family in a wonderful journey to discover one of the most impressive art collections in the world!
Together with your professional kid-friendly guide you will admire masterpieces of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance art, gaze at the colourful frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and enter into the world of the Catholic Church at Saint Peter’s Basilica.
Avoid the long queues and enter the Vatican Museums with your skip-the-line ticket.
Your guide will involve the whole family in trivia, games and family contests to keep you entertained over the 3-hour walking tour.
Visit the Belvedere Courtyard designed by Donato Bramante, the Chiaramonti Museum, with its vast collection of Roman portrait busts, the Gallery of Tapestries, the Gallery of the Candelabra, and much more.
Your children will love searching for the different animal statues in the Room of Animals; jaguar, crocodile, elephant and horse, discover the cities on the huge maps in the Hall of Geographical Maps, learn about St.Helena and Costantine and see the red porphyry coffin with Helena's sarcophagus in the Greek Cross Hall.
From here you'll arrive to the wonderful Sistine Chapel, with its breathtaking ceiling painted by Michelangelo. Marvel at the Creation of Adam, the Last Judgment, and other scenes from the Book of Genesis as well as further frescoes by Botticelli, Perugino and other important Italian artists of the 15th century.
You'll head to Saint Peter’s Basilica, the largest church in the world, where you can admire the marble Pietà by Michelangelo and the baroque bronze Baldachin over the altar of the Basilica.
A last picture in Saint Peter’s Square with Bernini’s Colonnades and then we say goodbye!
- 3 hours
- All ages
- Rome