Hop on hop off bus 24/48 hours and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with assistance at the entrance. Online ticket purchase - Musei Vaticani, Viale Vaticano, 6 - Roma
Hop on hop off bus 24/48 hours and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with assistance at the entrance. Online ticket purchase: € 81 per person.
This ticket allows you to enter one of the major museums on the planet without queuingat the entrance. A representative will be waiting for you. outside the entrance to the Vatican Museums and will make it easier for you the entry procedure. Enter through the reserved entrance skipping the long entry lines.
Then you join the guide and begin a tour of the Vatican Museums along a carefully designed route to admire the centuries-old art collections and the archaeological wonders of the various sections of the museum .
You visit the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Candelabra. Crossing the Gallery of Geographical Maps before reaching the Raphael's Rooms, where you can admire the famous School of Athens.
Then you take a walk in the Cortile della Pigna of Bramante where you can take photos next to the bronze statue of the Pigna also mentioned by Dante in the Comedy.
It ends with a visit to the Sistine Chapel to admire the sixteenth-century masterpieces including the Chapel and the Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
Open bus - 24 or 48 hours
This ticket also includes the tour on board the Rome City Sightseeing open-top bus to discover the most important places of the Eternal City. You can get on and off at any stop along the route from 9.00 to 17.00.
Vatican Museums opening hours: from Monday to Saturday (excluding holidays).
Bus timetable: Monday to Saturday from 9.00 to 17.00.
Hop on hop off bus fare 24/48 hours and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with entrance assistance
Price per person: € 81.
What does the skip-the-line ticket for the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with entrance assistance include
– Welcome and assistance at the City Sightseeing Visitor Center near St. Peter's Square.
– Enter through the reserved entrance with a Musement assistant, skip the long lines and start your experience straight away.
– Guided tour with an official guide in English and Spanish.
– Earphones.
– Unlimited time inside the Vatican Museums.
– Hop-on Hop-off bus ticket valid for 24 or 48 hours (depending on the option chosen).
Meeting point for 24/48 hour hop on hop off bus and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with entrance assistance
– Stop 6 - Hop on, Hop off: Rome Lungotevere Tor di Nona, 7.
Open Bus and Tours booking vouchers can be exchanged at any open stop directly on board the bus at least 2 hours before the entry time. You will be given tickets for the Open Bus and instructions for the attractions.
Make sure you are at the meeting point communicated by the onboard at least 15 minutes before the selected time slot.
Duration of the hop on hop off bus 24/48 hours and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with assistance at the entrance
– Flexible during Vatican Museum opening hours. After the tour you can stay in the Museums.
– Bus during 24 or 48 hours.
Languages Hop on hop off bus 24/48 hours and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with entrance assistance
– English, Spanish.
Timetable and days Hop on hop off bus 24/48 hours and guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with assistance at the entrance
Time: from Monday to Saturday with times to be selected from the various available.
Meeting time: 15 minutes before.
By presenting the voucher upon arrival – smartphone vouchers accepted – at the representative you can start the tour.
Cancellation terms Hop on hop off bus 24/48 hours and Guided tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
Reservation can be made be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before the visit.
The Vatican Museums
A visit to the Vatican Museums is part of every trip to Rome. It is the most museum visited in Italy, even if it does not appear in the rankings as it is part of the Vatican State.
The Museums were created at the behest of Pope Julius II, Raphael's patron
and Michelangelo, artists who left a profound mark on the interior
of the Museum in the part of the papal residences.
The Vatican Museums in Rome today exhibit one of the largest museum collections
important on the planet.
We start with ancient art: canvases, statues, hieroglyphic inscriptions, bronzes
votives accompany the visitor on a dense and rich path that ends
in rooms that house precious Mesopotamian and Assyrian finds.
The visit to the Pinacoteca is important where,
in the space of some rooms, you can admire works by Perugino, Raphael, Leonardo, Bernini, Caravaggio.
We always end up with the famous Raphael Rooms where
condensed into 4 rooms, some of the undisputed masterpieces of the
master from Urbino including the School of Athens, a wall frescoed with
main exponents of Greek philosophy. Aself-portrait appears in the fresco
of Raphael, who looks towards the observer, and a portrait of Michelangelo, in the character of Heraclitus.
With a leap to the upper floor you arrive at the Sistine Chapel which is accessed through a small door.
Visit to the Vatican Museums
After the entrance you go up to the first floor with an escalator that leads to the entrance
directly to the Egyptian Section, full of finds belonging to everyone
the periods of Egyptian history. Steles, statues, hieroglyphic inscriptions, bronzes
votivesaccompany the visitor on a dense and rich path that ends
in rooms that house precious Mesopotamian and Assyrian finds. The art
Egyptian style strikes for the hieratic charm of the figures and the richness of the
objects and reliefs present in the Assyrian section are true masterpieces
sculptures that embellished the doors and palaces of the Assyrian lords and sovereigns
like Ashurbanipal.
 Pine cone from the Temple of Isis to the Campus Martius (2nd century AD) It is difficult to visit all the rooms that make up the museum itinerary
Vatican in a single day. Not to be missed is the Pinacoteca where,
in the space of some rooms, you can admire works by Perugino, Raphael, Leonardo and Bernini. A special mention to the great Caravaggio, maestro
undisputed example of the exaggerated artistic expressiveness of the baroque style.
It is also worth going down to the famous Cortile della Pigna and taking a walk
walk, if the day and the time available allow it.
Going up to the second floor you reach the famous Raphael Rooms where
condensed into 4 rooms, some of the undisputed masterpieces of the
master from Urbino including the School of Athens, a wall frescoed with
main exponents of Greek philosophy. Aself-portrait appears in the fresco
of Raphael, who looks towards the observer, and a portrait of Michelangelo, in the character of Heraclitus.
With a leap to the upper floor you arrive at the Sistine Chapel which is accessed through a small door. Nowthey can
take photosbut they are only allowed without the use of flash. The look
he is attracted to the vault where, in an impeccable composition, he loses himself
between the powerful figures of the Sibyls and the Prophets and the suggestions of the Universal Creation, the Creation of Man and the Expulsion from Eden.
The entire chapel then displays a notable series of on the side walls masterpieces depicting the Life of Christ signed by Rosselli, Perugino, Botticelli.
 The Stories of Genesis on the ceiling (Michelangelo Buonarroti)On the main wall is the Last Judgment by Michelangelo:
in a centrifugal structure which has Christ as its judge
origin, the figures of the resigned Virgin and the deities develop Saints of the Church. The figures are shocking in their expressive power
of the angels of the Apocalypse sounding the trumpets of judgment
they wake the dead from their sleep. On the left the figures rise
to the sky taking back their bodies, to the right thedemons drag
downwards the damnedwhere a Charon uses the oar to spur
those condemned by the Judgment of Christ.
As everyone knows, the work caused a scandal due to its exhibition
of naked bodies in the genital parts and for this he was commissioned Daniele da Volterra to cover the parts in question with his trousers.
Responsible for the decision was the Master of Ceremonies of
Vatican Biagio da Cesena, who for this outrage was depicted
in the figure of Minosby the great, ironic, Michelangelo.
The spiral staircase that leads out of the Vatican Museums is a joy
for the eye, the last jewel of an unforgettable visit.
The history of the Vatican Museums
 Detail of Michelangelo's Last Judgment The Museums were created at the behest of Pope Julius II, Raphael's patron
and Michelangelo, artists who left a profound mark on the interior
of the Museum in the part of the papal residences.
Other Popes followed one another
then with the intention of expanding the collection with new dedicated sections
to different cultures: Clement XIV (1769-1774) and Pius VI (1775-1799), Pius
VII (1800-1823) for the Classical finds, Gregory XVI (1831-1846) for the
Etruscan and Egyptian sections, Pius IX (1846-1878) for the Christian section. |
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