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Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica
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Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica

By Made in Rome Tours
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Ages 0-100, max of 200 per group
Duration: 3h
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  • An expert tour guide with over 10 years of experience. Excellent story teller.
  • Guaranteed skip-the-line access to the Vatican Museums
  • Admission tickets to the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica
  • Entry/Admission - Vatican Museums
  • Entry/Admission - Sistine Chapel
  • Entry/Admission - St. Peter's Basilica
  • Guaranteed to skip the lines
What's not included
  • Private transportation
  • Gratuities


Departure details
  • Via Plauto, 17, 00193 Roma RM, Italy The meeting point is located in Borgo Pio, near St. Peter's square. The exact address is Via Plauto 17/A. IMPORTANT: Please check your booking for the start time of the Vatican ENGLISH tour. Arrive 20 minutes before at the meeting point ( Via Plauto 17A ) for check-in. Thank you !
Return details
  • St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Near public transportation
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 120123P3

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 200 travelers

  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

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Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica price starts from $33.74. Discover and book Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica on Tripadvisor
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Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica cancellation policy: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Discover and book Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica on Tripadvisor
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  • You'll start at
    Via Plauto, 17
    Via Plauto, 17, 00193 Roma RM, Italy
    The meeting point is located in Borgo Pio, near St. Peter's square. The exact address is Via Plauto 17/A. IMPORTANT: Please check your booking for the start time of the Vatican ENGLISH tour. Arrive 20 minutes before at the meeting point ( Via Plauto 17A ) for check-in. Thank you !
    See address & details
  • 1
    Borgo
    Stop: 40 minutes
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    Pass by
    Via della Conciliazione
  • 2
    St. Peter's Square
    Stop: 20 minutes
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  • 3
    Vatican City
    Stop: 15 minutes
    See details
  • 4
    Vatican Museums
    Stop: 45 minutes - Admission included
    See details
  • 5
    Sistine Chapel
    Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included
    See details
  • 6
    St. Peter's Basilica
    Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included
    See details
  • You'll end at
    St. Peter's Basilica
    Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
    See address & details
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  • B1801OLrosem
    B1801OLrosem
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    Take this tour - fun and fascinating
    Take this tour! Our tour guide, Marco, made the three hours fly by with interesting facts and humor. Highly recommend as a tour of the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel and easy admission to St Peter's. In addition to the great tour, the price was well worth it to avoid waiting in several lengthy lines.
  • P4895VJkarent
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    Won’t disappoint
    This was a great tour the guide was very knowledgeable heard nightmares of other companies would definitely always use trip advisor from now on had to use customer service on another tour and they were excellent Highly recommend skip the line especially in August in Italy it’s the way to go !
  • jamesrE9249MI
    jamesrE9249MI
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    Great Tour
    An amazing tour! Skipping the line was the first benefit. The ordinary line was over three hours long.. The first person on that line arrived at 6:30AM… We arrived on line at 9AM and was in and beginning our tour with Giovanni by 9:30AM. Giovanni was knowledgable, friendly and answered every question anyone had.. I would pay the cost just to skip the line… I was even able to catch a mass at noon at St. Peter’s Basilica.
  • FellowTraveler594230
    FellowTraveler594230
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    Fabulous Vatican/ Sistine Chapel tour
    Our tour guide was very efficient in guiding us through the Vatican snd the Sistine Chapel. He was informative and entertaining. He provided us with the opportunity to take pictures but also kept a good pace. I would highly recommend this tour!
  • Jjayantn
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    Your first experience in Rome should be this!
    Rome is really beautiful. We spent time at the Vatican museum and Sistine Chappel yesterday All.that we heard or read doesn't match to actually visiting. The guide was very passionate in explaining the history behind different paintings and sculptures. It brought the experience to better light. Really amazing!
  • ericrM5634JS
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    Santi is the best
    Instructions were clear and the tour was well-organized. Our tour guide Santi is extremely knowledgeable and funny and that made for an excellent experience. Skipping the line was very worth it, especially here. Highly recommended!
  • phoenixw2019
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    Great trip to the Vatican
    Great guide he explained a lot of the history including some funny stories about some very famous paintings that I had no idea about, very nice always made sure group was together and gave us some moments for photos. Also after you are free to walk around the Vatican museums. Well organised and explained would reccomend.
  • danielv913
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    When it’s worthh it to skip the line
    Filippo was our guide. Excellent information. Pace was just right. Tip: bring an umbrella for the times you may need to wait under the sun. Bring a water bottle, as well. Women should use the bathroom before leaving your hotel (women’s bathroom lines are long at the Vatican museum).
  • maddiek358
    maddiek358
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    Amazing tour
    Super quick planning and the tour guide was so so informed and nice. Would definitely recommend!!
  • ioanat958
    ioanat958
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    Beautiful experience in Rome♥️
    Profesional , efficient comunicative,organist and the guide so amusing.This I won.t forget Love it!!
  • paulcookfiskerton
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    So worth it!
    We booked this tour whilst in Rome for our wedding anniversary, which also happened to be Republic Day in Italy. The queue for the Vatican museum was literally miles long! We met at the Made in Rome Tours offices and then set off behind our guide. The streets were rammed, but he kept the group together and into the museum, organising each step, security, tickets, assisting 2 families with baby buggies, before handing us over to our Vatican guide. On such a busy day this was an amazing achievement. Once inside, the guide was super-knowledgable and very happy to answer all questions. The tour was everything we expected and the Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica were - of course - remarkable. So, we would highly recommend the tour and repeat out thanks to the Made in Rome Tours team for their expert delivery.
  • U7262KZmk
    U7262KZmk
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    Easy trip to the chapel
    Was smooth and easy process and we skipped all the long lines! We didn't have any problems with payment.
  • LorrainePFS
    LorrainePFS
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    Excellent guidr
    Felipe was an EXCELLENT tour guide. The scenery was breathtaking. The staff in the gift shop was rude.
  • marydS6916ZH
    marydS6916ZH
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    Highly recommend
    Excellent tour. Skip the line a must to avoid the queues. Giovanni our guide took the time to explain what to expect before we set off. He was very knowledgeable and pointed out as many highlights as possible on this 3 hour tour. Highly recommend.
  • billrM4554DP
    billrM4554DP
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    Terrific tour
    We did the skip the line tour of Vatican, Sistine chapel, and St Peters Bacilica Professionals. Great
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Jeremy Dominic W
25 contributions
Mar 2020 • Couples
Found this guided Vatican tour on TA in January before heading to Rome in early February. I normally hate the idea of being part of a ‘paddle board’ led tourist group but given the scale and breadth of what you can see, for an amateur like me on a first visit to Rome and it’s sights, a guided tour seemed like an essential piece.

No problem finding the starting location. In a group of about 20 people from all nationalities but our guide Guillian made all welcome.

Pre corovirus the skipping the lines aspect appealed and it really worked and saved a huge amount of unproductive queue time.

I’m not going to spend time on the attractions themselves since there is so much there that a few hours and fleeting looks can’t possibly do justice to.

The tour provided ‘Vatican’ headsets (pleased to see the Catholic Church continues to master its centuries old experience of money making ) and these enabled Guillian to communicate with us well. All worked and he was excellent - clearly knew the subjects and points of interest well. All the tours have to work and follow a pretty prescribed time and route and you need to be aware of this. The tour gives you a taster and if a particular part/piece attracts your interest you can return to spend more specific time at your choosing on a later date.

We had 20mins in the Sistine Chapel which is breathtaking and then the tour cheers concluded outside St Marks. We carried on independently to view the Bascillica which is stunning. I’d recommend going down to the crypt where you can see the remarkable tombs of the previous popes.

Both my partner and I would really recommend this experience and hope that the team will stay together and be able to carry on post Corona...
Written March 16, 2020
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Narelle J
3 contributions
Jan 2020
We did a tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica lead by Guiliano who was an excellent guide and provided an interesting and insightful commentary. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone who would like to see the highlights of these places within a few hours. The tour kept my 11 year old son entertained and engaged which was quite an achievement!
Written January 24, 2020
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Thanks so much for your review we are so glad you enjoy the tour. Hope to see you back soon :) Made in Rome Staff!
Written January 27, 2020
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gomerk
Baltimore, MD126 contributions
Glad we decided to skip the line as we went on New Year’s Eve and the line into the Vatican was five to six hours long. There was about a 20 minute walk to the Vatican and then about a 20 minute security line wait.

Since there is no talking within the Sistine Chapel Giuliano gave the run down of the paintings outside the tour office. This ended up saving us time since we didn’t have to wait in line within the Vatican to hear the description.

We got our headsets once in the Vatican Museum. Giuliano did a great job explaining the history and meaning of all the art we walked past and he was easy to understand through the headset. He also did a great job of wrangling us and keeping us together among a huge mass of other visitors.

Very grateful to Giuliano and this tour for helping us to see the sights while on a short time budget.
Written January 8, 2020
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Happy to hear we Made our job and fulfill your expectations!! Hope to see you back in Rome. Made in Rome Tours staff!
Written January 9, 2020
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0302shell1970
Telford, UK28 contributions
Giulliano was our tour guide for the day and he was super informative, friendly and really considerate to everyone in the group as the age range and ability was very varied. At the starting point he went through the whole Sistine chapel so we knew what we were looking at once we got there, which as I’ve visited the Vatican before gave me a whole different outlook looking at it. He knew everything when questioned and just gave little insights that I feel most guides would not have known. Giulliano clearly loves the Vatican and his job and this comes across in all he says. The skipping the line was well worth it as the queue for St. Peter’s basilica was extremely long all day the tour jumped all of this. Would definitely recommend this tour and especially giulliano and the Vatican and all it holds is breathtaking!!!
Written January 31, 2020
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Thanks so much for your Review. Hope to see you back soon Made in Rome Tours Staff
Written February 2, 2020
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Martin A
Wigan, UK3 contributions
Feb 2020
Fantastic tour, booked this through trip advisor prior to visiting Rome and so glad we did. Stumbled across the Vatican City the day before when wandering around and the queues were huge. This got us straight in 'through the backdoor' and lots of quick access routes through the tour particularly to get you quick access to the sistine chapel. A short delay to get the headsets sorted but it was a welcome 5 minute toilet break. Our tour guide Guiliano was very knowledgeable with very good English and made the tour humorous and entertaining, this has to be the best money we spent in Rome. Book it you'll love it !!!
Written February 15, 2020
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We are happy to hear that our guide was accordino to your expectations. Hope to see you back soon :) Made in Rome Staff!
Written February 16, 2020
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Goldilocks1108
Hertfordshire, UK19 contributions
Jun 2022 • Family
A brilliant tour seeing one of the holiest places on earth! Giuliano was our excellent English speaking tour guide who was clear and easy to understand. He guided us through all the security checks into the Vatican with ease. The audio guides were very helpful even if some needed replacing but that is due to the Vatican not updating the guides since 2005 to a more modern digital version but we all managed. The sights we saw are truly amazing and it’s quite a privilege to actually stand where so many popes and dignitaries have stood before in such beautiful surroundings steeped in history. There was so much to see and learn about that you end up with brain overload. The Sistine chapel was awesome. It doesn’t disappoint. How Michelangelo managed to paint all that in 9 years in total during his lifetime is inspiring. We were also lucky enough to see St Peter’s Basilica which re-opened after Covid closures. So many photo opportunities. Truly magnificent. The Vatican museum is very big and we weren’t able to stop and look at everything as there wasn’t enough time on the actual tour, however, once the tour is over, you are free to go and look at it again in more detail but to be honest, after nearly four hours of walking about in 35c heat, all you really want to do is sit down and eat and drink something which you can do inside the museum or sit outside in its gardens. I’d recommend revisiting in a cooler month and buying an solo entry ticket to the museum just to be able to take your time at your own pace to really be able to study everything and see all the artefacts. In the meantime this tour was well worth it and I’d highly recommend it. Enjoy! 😊
Written June 24, 2022
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Andy W
2 contributions
Jan 2020 • Family
Took this tour 4th January 2020 when it was still really busy after the New Year. The queue for the Vatican was very very long so Skip the Line was a great way to save time.
Our guide Guiliano was friendly and very enthusiastic and full of very interesting facts about the things we were seeing.
I Would recommend this tour.
Be aware you have to be patient as entry to the Vatican involves security checks and some unavoidable delays but Skip the line meant Guiliano got us inside as quickly as he could and ensured that time spent passing through these check was kept to a minimum
Great tour. Thank you
Written January 8, 2020
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Happy to hear we Made our job and fulfill your expectations!! Hope to see you back in Rome. Made in Rome Tours staff!
Written January 9, 2020
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Olivia96
Wirral, UK4 contributions
We booked our tour guide for Vatican City through ‘viatour’ which we got an amazing tour guide, ear piece and skip the lines. Our tour guide was amazing and really knew her stuff, her name was Claire. She always got you involved and asked questions making it more fun for us while walking round. We visited all the art and sculpture galleries, which then led us the the Sistine chapel which you aren’t aloud to talk in or take pictures which we were fine with as it is honestly eye-opening and breathtaking. Vatican City is just amazing. Highly recommend anyone to go and book this excursion through ‘viatour’ or on here for made in Rome tours. If I visit Rome again which i probably will I’d go to Vatican City again 100%!
Written February 16, 2020
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We are happy to hear that our guide was accordino to your expectations. Hope to see you back soon :) Made in Rome Staff!
Written February 16, 2020
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Nick W
22 contributions
My partner and I did this tour in January and we both agree it was excellent and worth every cent! It was very well-organised with clear instructions on the meeting point and what to expect. Our guide Giuliano was fantastic and really made the tour. He was extremely knowledgeable and his ten years experience really showed as he provided comprehensive context and information throughout the entire tour. My partner and I both enjoyed that the tour was completely stress-free as our guide took care of everything, including all entry points and explained how to navigate the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, and Saint Peter's Basilica. The guide also clearly knew the staff as he was able to provide access and entry at points that other groups could not. The tour can feel rushed, but this is necessary to keep up with the pace of how all tourists and groups are going through the areas. Guiliano did a great job of keeping everyone together and making sure we were all comfortable with the pace and tour. We would highly recommend this tour!
Written January 10, 2020
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Thanks a lot for your review! We are glad you enjoy the tour with Giuliano! Hope to see you back soon in Rome Made in Rome Staff!
Written January 13, 2020
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Graeme R
2 contributions
Family of 4 booked the tour and staff at the office were extremely helpful in accommodating us given we had booked for the following day when we were at rugby.
Our guide Giuliano was superb from start to finish, he didn’t have the stick with flag/scarf he took time to greet each and every one of us individually and remembered who we throughout.
We are not religious in any way, but the history of the Vatican provided by Giuliano was in depth and insightful.
Would 100% recommend the company to everyone.
Written February 28, 2020
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thanks a lot for the great review you made to our company! We are happy you enjoy your time with us, hope to see you back soon in Rome. Made in Rome staff
Written March 3, 2020
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