World's Greatest Art Collection & Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo • Raphael • Ancient Treasures
Explore → Get Early AccessLast entry 4PM, closed Sundays
Full visit including Sistine Chapel
Skip-the-line from €25
Viale Vaticano entrance
Twenty-six museums in one, ending at the Sistine Chapel — the greatest art collection ever assembled, gathered by the institution that commissioned much of it. Even the corridors between galleries would anchor a national museum anywhere else.
Popes began collecting in 1506, when Julius II displayed the newly unearthed Laocoön in a courtyard — the same pope who then put Michelangelo on the chapel ceiling and Raphael in the apartments, running art history's two greatest projects simultaneously, down the hall from each other.
The Sistine ceiling took Michelangelo four years painting standing up, head tilted back — he wrote a sonnet complaining his beard pointed at heaven and his brain was crushed. Visitors walk about 7 km if they see it all.
Rome's baroque masterpiece, fed by an aqueduct running since 19 BC — throw your coin and…
135 steps of 18th-century theater connecting Piazza di Spagna to Trinità dei Monti — Rome's grandest…
Rome's best-preserved ancient building — a 1,900-year-old temple whose unreinforced concrete dome has never been surpassed.
Heart of Ancient Rome's Political & Social Life
Skip the Lines at Rome's Most Iconic Ancient Wonder
The world's first covered shopping complex — a multi-level marvel of Roman engineering above the imperial…
Join thousands of travelers who've discovered Rome's secrets. Get our comprehensive guide with skip-the-line strategies, restaurant recommendations, and neighborhood walking tours.
Explore more destinations in our Italian travel network
More journeys: 🌺 rHawaii 📷 rPhotography
Some links on this site are affiliate links — if you book through them, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. We only recommend tours and stays we would book ourselves.