Papal Audience | A unique experience of the Holy See, including a guided tour of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel.
Enjoy a Papal audience with the Pope!
Inclusions:
- English-speaking guide
- Papal audience reserved a ticket
- Skip the line tickets for Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
- Headsets
- Lunch
Itinerary of the Papal Audience and Vatican Museum Tour
Papal Audiences and Vatican Museums Tour
9 hrs. | Start: 8 a.m. | Participants: 25 Max | English-speaking tour, and arranging in other languages on request is possible.
Meeting Point: Next to the Vatican Museum entrance.
The group will meet the guide and head towards the heart of the Vatican City – St Peter’s Square.
Along the way, your guide entertains you with exciting stories about the Vatican, including its rich architecture and history. You will also learn about the different Popes, their love for art, and their collection of religious artifacts. Once the group clears the security checkpoint at St Peter’s, you will join the weekly audience with Pope Francis. Visitors worldwide book in advance to be part of this momentous occasion. St Peter’s is the preferred place for the audience as it allows visitors to sit or stand and can accommodate up to 80,000 visitors. It is a rare spiritual moment, and very few experience this in their lifetime. The Papal audience ends around lunchtime, and you will enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.
Vatican Museums
Then, the three-hour afternoon tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel starts. As you pass through the Vatican Galleries, you will see art collections, frescos, sculptures, fountains, marble columns, and many other treasures. Experience Raphael’s masterpiece, ‘The School of Athens, ‘ celebrating the Renaissance style. ‘Laocoön and His Sons’ is an almost life-size ancient sculpture showing the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons attacked by sea serpents. Your guide will tell you who survived and who perished.
Sistine Chapel
Your Papal audience tour includes skip-the-line access, giving you direct entry to the Sistine Chapel. The group can visit the conclave hall, where the new Pope is elected.
Marvel at the frescoed ceilings painted by renowned artists such as Michelangelo.
The tour ends here.
Papal Audience and Vatican Museum – Tour For an experience of a lifetime and see the Pope live. Come on, book it!
Important Reminder – Papal Audiences and Vatican Museums Tour
- This tour is only available on Wednesday when the Pope addresses the audience. We do have other guided tours of the Vatican City on different days, not including the Papal Audience.
- You can access Saint Peter’s Basilica directly at the end of the tour if a direct passage from the Sistine Chapel is available.
- Admission is free for children under the age of 3.
- This tour, including the Papal Audience, is not ideal for visitors who use wheelchairs (including pushchairs and strollers) and visitors with hearing disabilities. We are happy to organize private tours for wheelchair and hearing-disabled visitors. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
- There is a lot of walking, so please wear comfortable shoes.
- You have to go through airport-style security at the Vatican entrance. Bring only a light backpack as many items are limited (spiky umbrellas, large suitcases and large backpacks, weapons, firearms, knives).
- For the Papal Audience and Vatican Museum tour, There is a dress code to the Vatican that applies to children too: Shoulders and knees must be covered.
- If the Sistine Chapel is closed for a religious service on short notice as it is a functioning church, you will spend more time in the Vatican Galleries with your tour guide.
- The Vatican Museums get rather busy during summer and after a bank holiday. Tours in Rome
