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This Early Access Sistine Chapel experienceis perfect for visitors who want to see the Sistine Chapel before the crowds arrive, gaining access before other tour groups and the general public. After your quiet Sistine Chapel visit you can choose to enter the Vatican Museums, wandering the Papal Palace on your own, seeing all there is to see in your own time and at your own pace. Or if time is short, you can fly on to your next destination, content in the knowledge that you have seen Rome’s finest masterpiece.
Our Early Access Sistine Chapel group meets early in the morning, skipping the long lines already outside the Vatican Museums and entering even before the doors have officially opened. Visitors will be accompanied to the Sistine Chapel where they’ll enter before anyone else, finding this incredible room empty. Later in the day there will barely be room to move, but in the minutes before opening time, all is quiet.
After the Sistine Chapel, visitors will be able to wander the Vatican Museums for the rest of the day free of charge – and with such an early meeting time, the day ahead is long. Your escort will leave you with a map and an introduction to the most important sites of the museums so you can get the most from your time with the Vatican’s nine-mile art collection.
Dark Rome is currently the only tour operator to offer this special access, getting visitors into the Vatican Museums at 7:45 AM. That’s 15 minutes ahead of other tour operators and a huge 1 hour and 15 minutes ahead of the general public. With only 20 people or less per group and a maximum of two Dark Rome groups running per day, your Sistine experience will be as intimate as it should be.
