The Treasures Of The Vatican

Meet with your local expert guide at your hotel today, and together you’ll transfer over to the Vatican Museums.  The Vatican Museums contain the extensive artistic heritage collected by all the Popes throughout the centuries: consisting of ancient art sculptures, to breathtaking works of the masters, to the galleries of Candelabra, Tapestry and Geographical Maps.

See the Papal Apartments of Pope Giulio II, with the famous ‘Raphael Rooms’ (rooms decorated by Raphael), and then admire the magnificent Sistine Chapel with its incomparable paintings by Michelangelo.  & If open to the public you’ll visit the majestic St. Peter’s Basilica to view Michelangelo’s “Pietà” and its famous Piazza.