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Vatican City and St Peter’s Basilica

Vatican City and St Peter’s Basilica

Rome · Italy

4 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow this focused walk through Vatican City, beginning at the vast interior of Saint Peter’s Basilica and continuing into the spaces around it. See Saint Peter’s Square, visit the Sistine Chapel, and explore the Vatican Museums. The route brings together the basilica, square, chapel, and museum that define this extraordinary religious and artistic center.

The walk

  1. Saint Peter’s Basilica

    Saint Peter’s Basilica

    A Renaissance basilica built over the traditional tomb of Saint Peter, shaped by five centuries of papal ambition.

  2. Saint Peter's Square

    Saint Peter's Square

    Bernini’s colonnades turn a papal forecourt into an embrace around an ancient Egyptian obelisk.

  3. Sistine Chapel

    Sistine Chapel

    A working papal chapel where Renaissance painting meets the drama of choosing a pope.

  4. Vatican Museums

    Vatican Museums

    A papal collection that began with one ancient sculpture and grew into twenty-four galleries of art and archaeology.

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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