Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica
Enter the Vatican Museums and begin your journey through one of the most significant art collections in the world, spanning centuries of artistic and spiritual history.
Walk through the Cortile del Belvedere and learn about its revolutionary Renaissance design and its role as the architectural heart of the Vatican Museums.
Explore the Gallery of the Candelabra, admiring monumental sculptures, richly decorated ceilings, and the nineteenth-century vision of a grand museum experience.
Continue into the Gallery of Tapestries and discover Flemish masterpieces that depict biblical scenes through intricate weaving and extraordinary detail.
Proceed through the Gallery of Maps, a vast painted atlas that reveals how sixteenth-century scholars visualized the geography of Italy.
Visit the Museo Pio Clementino, the original Vatican Museum, and examine some of the most important classical sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome.
Enter the Sistine Chapel and admire Michelangelo's ceiling and Last Judgment while learning about the chapel's role in papal conclaves and religious ceremonies.
Conclude the experience inside St. Peter's Basilica, built over the tomb of Saint Peter, and appreciate its monumental scale, Renaissance and Baroque artistry, and spiritual significance.
