Vatican Museums Tickets

Skip the line, take a guided tour and stroll through the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums to get your eyes on artifacts of this smallest country of the world. Behind the vast museum is one of the most private gardens in the world, the Vatican gardens. The garden is spread across an area of 23 hectares of land rich in flower beds, ancient sculptures, fountains, and buildings from the medieval age. With the gardens, also explore the stunning museum of the Vatican City.

Must Checkout: Gallery of Tapestries

This is a combo Vatican Museum ticket where you will be given a tour of Rome on a bus as well as you will avoid the long lines at the museum. There are many beautiful places to visit in Rome, and a bus tour is one of the most convenient ways to do that. The bus tour will also include the amazing museum of Vatican City and you will have a direct pass into the museum without any lines.

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The Vatican City and Colosseum are two of the most popular as well as beautiful places in Rome and lakhs of people come here every year to have one of the most enlightening trips of their lives. This ticket is the only package that includes the sites of both Vatican City and the Colosseum like Vatican museums, the Sistine Chapel, Peter’s Basilica, Roman Forum, and palatine hill in one day. You will have an English speaking guide who will give you a detailed tour of the Roman buildings and gruesome battles held in them in history.

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The original Bramante Staircase in Vatican Museums was commissioned by Pope Julius II in the 16th century and was built to link the Belvedere Palace to the street of Rome. The stairs were used by the Pope to go to his private home in his carriage, as the stairs were no stairs but were an elevated pavement. The old staircase is not open to the public but the new staircase that is inspired by the old one is allowed to be climbed and visited by the public. The staircases resemble the structure of human DNA and are made in such a way that people ascending the staircases can not see the people descending.

Raphael Rooms consists of four separate rooms of the Vatican Palace where Pope Julius II stayed. The rooms were designed by the famous artist Raphael and thus named after him as Raphael Rooms. Each of the rooms was unique and beautiful and portrayed different religions and mythological stories. Several artworks were made by Raphael himself but in 1520 Raphael died suddenly, thus forcing his students from the School of Raphael to finish his incomplete work.

The Gregorian Etruscan Museum was founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836 and was reorganized in the year 1924. The Gregorian Etruscan Museum is a major part of the Vatican Museums and is a proud home to the gorgeous collection of the Etruscan excavation and some artifacts from the Regolini-Galassi tomb and the Etruscan jewelry. The museum was open to the public in the year 1839 and houses one of the most stunning Italian paintings.

The Sistine Chapel is a rectangular building built in bricks and has six arc windows on the main walls with a vaulted ceiling. The outside of the Sistine Chapel is unadorned and not that attractive but the inside of the Sistine Chapel is decorated with frescoes and famous paintings by many world-renowned painters. One of the most famous attractions of the Sistine Chapel is the frescoes painted by the famous artist, Michelangelo on the 500 square feet of the ceiling of the altar, to return again after years to finish the entire ceiling with his frescoes.

The place where the Hall of Busts & Gallery of statues in Vatican Museums exists once used to be a part of the loggia of the Palazzetto of Innocent VIII Cybo in Belvedere. The walls of the loggia were decorated with painted frescoes of scenery and little cupids, which are still visible. When Pope Clement XIV was creating a museum, he closed all these walls and the Hall of Busts was created.

The Vatican Gardens are one of the most private and largest gardens in the world. The Vatican Gardens are situated behind the Museums of the Vatican and are full of arts and artifacts of the medieval age. The gardens were built when Pope Nicholas III moved his residence here from Lateran Palace when he built walls, meadows, and gardens. The gardens spread across an area of 23 hectares and are rich in flower beds, ancient sculptures, buildings, and fountains from the medieval areas, where the pope often visited to stay alone for some time.