After meeting your coordinator at the meeting point, you'll be accompanied to St. Peter's Square in the Vatican to attend the Audience of Leo XIV. This event takes place every Wednesday from 10:00 to approximately 11:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square (in the winter in the Nervi Hall) . During the Papal Audience, your guide will explain the history of the Basilica and St. Peter's Square and why it is so important to Catholics around the world. After the Papal Audience, you'll visit St. Peter's Basilica on your own. Then, (meet you again coordinator around 2:30 PM). with pre-booked entrance tickets, you'll skip the line to enter the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, a place filled with rare and unique treasures. Admire masterpieces by famous Renaissance artists such as Raphael, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Michelangelo with a guided tour. Note: There are seats for everyone, but the same time is not guaranteed. NOTE: Papal Audience & St. Peter's Basilica entry 15-30 minits watting .
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 21.
Papal Audience , ST. PETER'S SQUARE
Please note: During the Papal Audience, entrance to St. Peter's Basilica will be closed to the public. Thirty minutes after the end of the Papal Audience, the Basilica will reopen. (Guided tour of St. Peter's Basilica not included, entrance only). You may reach St. Peter's Basilica independently from the main entrance (free admission). PLEASE NOTE: The agency is not responsible for any closures of entrances to St. Peter's Basilica.
With a professional Vatican authorized guide, you will the Vatican Museums to see the masterpieces of famous Renaissance .
Breathtaking holy Sistine Chapel.
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Papal Audience tour with Sistine Chapel & St.Peter's Basilica lasts about 9 hours. The itinerary has 4 stops.
Prices start at $205 per person for this Rome experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs on Wednesdays, starting at 7:30 AM.
Children aged 6–18 pay from $171, adults from $205.
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
The meeting point is Meet in front of the Discovery Live Tours office. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in EN, ES.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 20 participants.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 3.7 out of 5 across 7 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by DISCOVERY LIVE TOURS.
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Excellent experience. Seeing the Pope with the help of this provider was much easier and more organized than going it alone. The guide was very knowledgeable and knew exactly how to orient himself so that we could see the Pope in the best position. And we skipped the line and immediately enjoyed our visit to the Museum and the Sistine Chapel. Highly recommended!
This tour was little misleading in my mind. My assumption was the guide would be with us at the Papal Audience. We picked up our tickets and then were on our own for the Papal Audience. They did do a great job at directing us to the security line and pointing out exactly where we would meet our tour after. If I were to book this again I would obtain the Papal Audience tickets separately and then book a tour to the Vatican museum, Sistine Chapel AND St. Peter's Basilica. We then met back up for the tour after the Audience and the tour began. By the time we finished the tour the Basilica line was crazy long. I didn't realize we would have to wait in the general admission line to enter the Basilica after our tour. We had a great tour guide for the Vatican Museum and overall a nice experience. Thank you!
Dear customer, thank you so mush for the feed bake and we are so glad that you enjoyed the tour and hope to see you again! Regards
Our tour guides were both excellent... Kind and knowledge. I loved being able to skip the lines for the both the Papal audience and tours of Vaticum Museums. The others in the tours were lovely- kind “sharers”. The experience was very memorable and profoundly moving. Being a pilgrim was truly a spiritual journey that hopefully leaves me a better person.
Dear customer, thank you so mush for the feed bake and we are so glad that you enjoyed the tour and hope to see you again! Regards
It’s expensive compared to box office prices, but it’s worth it for the time you save in the museum line, with the guide’s excellent explanation showing you the most important things about Vatican museums (they’re beautiful but would take a lot longer to tour) and getting everything ready for your visit before you arrive. The papal audience for example is free, but you don't have to look for the entrance tickets yourself.
Nos alegra saber que ha disfrutado de la calidad de la visita. La próxima vez que venga a Roma podríamos organizar otra visita para descubrir las obras que no tuvo tiempo de ver. Muchas gracias y hasta luego!
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papal Audience tour with Sistine Chapel & St.Peter's Basilica | 9 hours | 3.7 (7) | $205 | |
 Skip-the-Line Group Tour of the Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basilica | 3 hours | 4.6 (15,662) | $23 | View |
 Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter’s Basilica Guided Tour | 3 hours | 4.5 (42,000) | $79 | View |
 vatican :Papal Audience Guided tour & St. Peter’s Basilica entry | 5 hours | 4.6 (12) | $40 | View |
 Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter’s Basilica-Small Group | 3 hours | 4.7 (715) | $113 | View |
 Papal Audience and Guided Tour for St. Peter's Basilica | 3 hours | 4.4 (7) | $48 | View |
 Private Vatican, Sistine Chapel & St Peters Basilica Guided Tour | 2h 30min | 4.8 (329) | $372 | View |