It is possible to organize the following Guided Tours:

Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Vatican Gardens Vatican Museums and Basilica of Saint Peter Vatican Museums and Basilica of Saint Peter - Art & Faith

Individual visitors

• Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel (duration of the tour is approximately 2 hours)
  
  The reservation allows individual visitors to be part of a Vatican Group Tour conducted by an official Vatican Tour Guide. The tour takes the visitor through the most significant cultural and religious areas of the Vatican Museums. The tour follows an itinerary which includes: the Pio Clementino Museum (classical antiquity), the Gallery of the Candelabras, the Gallery of the Tapestries and the Gallery of the Geographical Maps (Renaissance Art), the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 31,00
  	reduced*	€ 24,00

  
  
  The ticket includes: admission to the Museums, guided tour and rental of audio-guides.
  * Children aged between 6 years and 18 years and students aged not more than 26 years are able to purchase the reduced ticket directly at the cash desk on the day of the tour on presentation of a student identity card.
  
  
  
• Vatican Gardens (duration of the tour is approximately 2 hours)
  
  A tour of the Gardens allows the visitor to be part of a group tour conducted by an official Vatican Guide. The tour is unique, as it takes the visitor through 2000 years of history. Besides the natural beauty of the gardens, the Vatican City is rich in monument and precious works of art.
  
  Open working days, except Wednesday and Sunday.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 31,00
  	reduced	€ 24,00

  
  
  The ticket includes: admission to the Museums (without guided tour), guided tour of the Gardens and rental of audio guides.
  
  Photogallery of the Vatican Gardens
  
  
  
• Vatican Museums and Saint Peter's Basilica (duration of the tour is 3 hours)
  
  The tour follows an itinerary which includes: the Pio Clementino Museum (classical antiquity), the Gallery of the Candelabras, the Gallery of the Tapestries and the Gallery of the Geographical Maps (Renaissance Art), the Raphael Rooms, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.
  
  N.B. The visit to Saint Peter's Basilica is made in accordance with the liturgical celebrations of the Holy Father or other events of Holy See or of the Vatican City State.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 36,00
  	reduced	€ 29,00

  
  
  The ticket includes the guided tour of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter's Basilica.
  
  
  
• Vatican Museums and Saint Peter's Basilica - Art & Faith (duration of the tour is 3 hours)
  
  An excursion through beauty from a Christian point of view for a Catechesis with Art. The Vatican Museums offer an opportunity to reveal the educational dimension of art according to an iconographic-pedagogic programme. "The Museum truly displays a continuous interweaving between Christianity and culture, between faith and art, between the divine and the human". (From the Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Staff of the Vatican Museums, 23 November 2006)
  
  The tour follows an itinerary which includes: the Pio Clementino Museum (classical antiquity), the Gallery of the Candelabras, the Gallery of the Tapestries and the Gallery of the Geographical Maps (Renaissance Art), the Raphael Rooms, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.
  
  N.B. The visit to Saint Peter's Basilica is made in accordance with the liturgical celebrations of the Holy Father or other events of Holy See or of the Vatican City State.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 36,00
  	reduced	€ 29,00

  
  
  The ticket includes the guided tour of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter's Basilica.
  
  
  

Groups

• Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel (duration of the tour is approximately 2 hours)
  
  Open working days.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 31,00
  	reduced	€ 24,00

  
  
  The ticket includes: admission to the Museums, guided tour and rental of audio guides.
  
  
  
• Vatican Gardens (duration of the tour is approximately 2 hours)
  
  Open working days, except Wednesday and Sunday.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 31,00
  	reduced	€ 24,00

  
  
  The ticket enables the visitor to continue, on their own, a tour of the Vatican Museums.
  
  
  
• Vatican Museums and Saint Peter's Basilica (duration of the tour is 3 hours)
  
  The tour follows an itinerary which includes: the Pio Clementino Museum (classical antiquity), the Gallery of the Candelabras, the Gallery of the Tapestries and the Gallery of the Geographical Maps (Renaissance Art), the Raphael Rooms, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.
  
  N.B. The visit to Saint Peter's Basilica is made in accordance with the liturgical celebrations of the Holy Father or other events of Holy See or of the Vatican City State.
  
  
  

  Tariffs	full	€ 36,00
  	reduced	€ 29,00

  
  
  The ticket includes the guided tour of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter's Basilica.
  
  
  

University students

It is possible to organize guided tours for students with teachers.

* University students, aged no more than 26 years, can take advantage of the reduced price ticket by presenting a student identity card (International Student Card) on the day of the visit. If you buy a reduced ticket without the necessary qualifications or the presentation of a valid student identify card you are required to buy another entrance full ticket. The reduced ticket is not refundable.

With exclusive guide

During the opening hours, visits for individual visitors or for small groups (max 15 persons) may be organized.

Private visits

Upon request, it is possible to organize a visit of the Museums after closing hours (e-mail: visitespeciali.musei@scv.va).

Archaelogical tours

Upon request (e-mail: visiteguidategruppi.musei@scv.va), visits for groups in the following archaelogical areas may be organized: Necropolis of the Via Triumphalis (S. Rosa)* and of the Car Park (Autoparco)* in the Vatican City, excavations of St. John Lateran, below the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
For informations: tel. +39 06 69883145 - +39 06 69884676

* The Santa Rosa Necropolis of the Via Triumphalis and the Necropolis of the "Autoparco" are closed for restoration at the moment.

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