Visiting the Vatican Museums extraordinary collections with a private tour is the best way to enjoy the best of Italian Art! Together with the Sistine Chapel, they are among the most-visited tourist attractions worldwide. Our Private Guides will provide you with a Uniquely Enjoyable Experience. Admire the prodigious ceiling of the Sistine Chapel!

Enjoy a semi-private Vatican tour with a maximum of six guests. With your expert guide and skip-the-line tickets, explore the Vatican Museums, experience the wonders of the Pinecone and Octagonal Courtyard and the Belvedere Torso. Admire Constantine’s coffins and unique sculptures while learning about Church history, the Popes, and the artworks. After this, it’s time to head over to see one of the stars of the tour – Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Admire the 8,000 square feet of this masterpiece standing in its center surrounded by paintings. After the Chapel and all its glory, your tour guide will take you towards your final stop, St. Peter’s Basilica* where you will enjoy exclusive access to the most immense and ornate Catholic church in the world. Visit one of the most stunning pieces of art in the basilica, Michelangelo’s statue of the Pietà, depicting the Virgin Mary holding her dying child in her arms.

Let us take you on a journey through time visiting the most important sights in the smallest country of the world, Vatican City! You will have an enriching experience showing you some of the worlds amazing, breath-taking art work, statues. We will show you the Pio-Clementine Museums that includes the world most famous statues, Laocoon group and the Belvedere torso. We will see the Gallery of the Tapestries, the Gallery of Maps painted in the 16th century. After scrolling through the art collection we will enter the former Papal apartments known as Raphael rooms, and the Borgia apartments. We will end in the breath-taking Sistine Chapel named after Pope Sixtus IV. You will spend a little time here, to be able to take in the beautiful frescoes made by Michelangelo Buonarotti, who spent years here to be able to finish the ceiling and the Last Judgment. Our licenced tour guide will take you out via the guided tour exit, not open for general public, towards the Basilica.

Get off your cruise for one day and visit the best-known sites of Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine – Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. We offer you a chance to catch a glimpse of what makes this ancient metropolis so great, comfortably, in your private luxury car with your professional guide. Pick up and drop off at the dock! We provide intermediate transfers and lunch in a selected restaurant. 9 hours include pick up and drop off. IMPORTANT: - Cars and drivers might change at every transfer: remember to bring all your belongings with you. - Big bags or backpacks and big umbrellas are not allowed inside the sites. - Cover knees and shoulders inside the Sistine and in every Church. - Guides cannot avoid metal detectors checks - St. Peter’s Basilica might close without previous notice, mostly in Easter and Christmas. Last minute, we are unable to organize the tour in a different way. We will explain the Basilica from St. Peter's Square.

Max Parini welcomes you to Rome where we take great pride in our expertise in crafting highly personalized Rome Tours, city sightseeing tours that are tailored to your unique preferences and interests. I will be your driver and a Licensed Tour Guide with no limits of entering inside all Museums and Monuments: just two people in one, as a driver plus a Rome Guide, means that you pay less with us than booking with some other Companies, make the deal with me and you’ll be happy. I only accept one booking per day. Once I receive it that date will be blocked only to be personally with you. You can add for extra the option to visit the Vatican Museums but I won't be with you for that part of the tour after the 7 hours tour we're going to spend together. I will make sure to give you my best tour guide. For last minute bookings (less than 30 days) we reserve the right to offer you alternatives or free cancellations if we are unable to carry out the service as described.

No wasting hours in queues—your expert guide whisks you straight inside to maximize your time among masterpieces. Beyond dry facts, guides bring the art to life with secrets, scandals, and awe-inspiring details you’d never discover alone. Stand beneath The Creation of Adam while your guide reveals hidden symbols, the artist’s struggles, and why this ceiling changed art forever. From the dazzling Gallery of Maps to Bernini’s dramatic sculptures, a guide ensures you see the best of the Vatican’s 20,000+ artworks.