Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with guide

• Join the guide at the meeting point and start of the tour
• Visit of the Vatican Museums with the so-called “Raphael’s rooms” with priority skip-the-line tickets.

There are four rooms, the Room of Constantine, the Room of Heliodorus, the Room of the Segnatura, the Room of the Fire of the Borgo that were part of the apartment chosen by Julius II and his successors as their residence. 

They were frescoed by Raphael and his pupils between 1508 and 1524. We will continue to the Gallery of the Tapestries, realized by Raphael’s students and commissioned by Pope Clement VII to decorate the Sistine Chapel. 

In the Picture Gallery it will be possible to admire other masterpieces by the artist such as The Transfiguration of Christ, The Coronation of the Virgin and The Madonna of Foligno.

• Lunch free (not included)

Borghese Gallery

• In the afternoon, visit of the Borghese Gallery (ticket included)

The museum contains a collection of classical antiquities, as well as the works of the most important Italian artists including three masterpieces by Raphael: Pala Baglioni, Portrait of a man and Lady with the Unicorn.

• End of tour, return individually to hotel.

Baroque Rome

• Meet with the guide and morning dedicated to Raphael’s masterpieces of Baroque Rome.

We will start from the Museum of Palazzo Barberini where La Fornarina is exhibited, the portrait of Margherita Luti, Raphael’s mistress and muse.

• We will continue the tour with a visit to the Trevi Fountain and the church of Sant’Agostino, where you can admire the fresco The Prophet Isaiah.
• Finally, in the ancient and monumental Pantheon, we will visit the Tomb of Raphael.

Surmounted by the Madonna del Sasso sculpted by Lorenzetto, a pupil of Raphael. Here it is possible to read the epitaph by Pietro Bembo which reads “Here lies Raphael, from whom mother nature feared defeat while he was alive; but now that he is dead he is afraid of dying ”.

On the right, a plaque commemorates Maria Bibbiena, the painter’s fiance, while on the left a nineteenth-century bust of the artist, by Giuseppe Fabris (1833).

• End of tour
• Lunch free (not included), afternoon free for individual visits

Included/not included

The excursion includes:

• Includes professional guide first day full day, second day half day
• Entrance with skip-the-line ticket for the Vatican Museums
• Borghese Gallery entrance

Does not include:

• Tips and personal extras
• Transfers to/from hotel and during the excursion (walking / public transport)

This tour is on request for individuals and groups.

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