Vatican Museums & St. Peter’s Basilica

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani), in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are among the greatest museums in the world, since they display works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries.

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums.

As of 2007, they were visited by 4,310,083 people for the year.

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), officially known in Italian as the Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter’s Basilica, is located within the Vatican City. St. Peter’s Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world, holding 60,000 people. It is the symbolic “Mother church” of the Catholic Church and is regarded as one of the holiest Christian sites. It has been described as “holding a unique position in the Christian world” and as “the greatest of all churches of Christendom“. In Catholic tradition, it is the burial site of its namesake Saint Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to tradition, first Bishop of Rome and therefore first in the line of the papal succession.

Vatican Museum & St. Peter’s Basilica Tour

If you book on-line, you are  saving minimum 5€ per person.

Price:

25€ tour + 15€ entrance fee = 40€ – adults

22€ tour + 8€ entrance fee = 30€ - turists under 25 years old born in EU

12€ tour + 8€ entrance fee = 20€ - children 7-14 years old born in EU

FREE – children up to 6 years old

(Please, bring personal document: ID, passport, driving licence or photocopies of those to prove that you were born in EU countries)

Tour includes: Vatican Museum; Raphael’s Rooms; The Sistine Chapel; St. Peter’s Basilica; St Peter’s Square

Duration:                         3 hours

Meeting point:             By the exit of Ottaviano „Subway station” near newspaper stand

Meeting time:              10:15 AM

How can you arrive: Metro “A” 6 stations after main train station TERMINI, buses 64, 40,  46.

Please note that a strict dress code is enforced at St. Peter’s: knees and shoulders must be covered and men must wear full-length trousers

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