Name: Guided tour of the Vatican - 2 hours
Rating: 4.2 (90 reviews)

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Official Vatican tour including the Sistine Chapel. Available Monday to Saturday at various times of day, lasts two hours.

This is an official, Vatican-organised tour that in approximately two hours covers the Pio Clementino Museum, the Gallery of the Candelabras, the Gallery of the Geographical Maps, the Gallery of the Tapestries (Renaissance art), the Raphael Rooms and, finally, the Sistine Chapel.

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Overview

Once the guided tour is over you are free to remain inside the Vatican complex and continue your individual explorations, should you so desire. The essential difference between this, the two hour tour, and some of our longer tours is that a guided visit to St Peters is not included, although you are able to enter St Peters by yourself, without the guide. Please note that this itinerary is not suitable for those using a wheelchair.

Tours are available 6 days a week (not on Sundays) in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese. They start at 8.30, 10.30 and 11.30 in the morning and 12.30, 2.00 and 2.30 in the afternoon. Being a pre-arranged tour you'll be skipping any entrance queues - there's a special desk for voucher-holders.

Reduced (slightly) price tickets are available for children between the ages of 6 and 18 (those under 6 pay nothing), as well as students under the age of 26 - ID will be required. Full priced tickets are necessary for everyone else, including those over the age of 65.

Reviews

4.2 stars out of 5 from 90 ratings. See all 61 reviews

5 stars

LH, Ireland
27th Nov 2022

The Vatican city guided tour was amazing our tour guide Jo was very knowledgeable.

5 stars

RW, United States
3rd Jun 2022

Our guide was amazing and full of fun, informative history. She had so much passion for the Vatican.

5 stars

DH, United States
10th May 2019

Excellent guide and tour. I think her name was Alexandra. The tour guide improved our visit to the Vatican immensely! I did originally purchase tickets for the garden tour but we had a 1 year old with us. Your site didn’t tell me that there was a minimum age requirement for the bus garden tour and our tickets had to be exchanged. Your fantastic employees caught the error, but it would have been wildly disappointing to show up for the bus tour and find out we couldn’t go in.

5 stars

AD, Barbados
1st Nov 2016

This was indeed fabulous. The tour guide was knowledgeable and friendly. Excellent tour and I would recommend this to anyone. I rate this tour a 5.

5 stars

SM, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
9th Feb 2016

Very sweet and enthusiastic guide, unhurried and very informative.

5 stars

DT, Indonesia
15th Dec 2015

The process is so easy, despite it being the last day of the year (31 Dec) and closing the museum early and massive visitors, we got in quickly and got a very knowledgeable guide! I would recommend booking the tickets with tickitaly! :)

At a glance details:

This is a full 'skip-the-queue' ticket.
You may use a copy of your voucher on a mobile device to gain admittance.
This tours lasts approximately 2 hours.
The tour is available in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese and includes headsets so that you can hear your guide.
For a two hour walking tour you are advised to wear comfortable shoes.
The date and time of your visit cannot be modified so please be sure to arrive on time - it's recommended that you're there at least 20 minutes before start time.
Please remember that as you'll be visiting a religious place that you'll need to dress respectfully - to not do so risks being denied entrance.

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Vatican
Official Tour

Two hour guided tour of the Vatican
and the Sistine Chapel.

Overview