Skip the ticket lines and enjoy fast-track entry to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel with this combo guided tour. With the help of your guide, get an inside look at the most famous aspects of these sights and discover masterpieces by Bernini, Michelangelo, Raphael, and others.

After meeting your guide, you’ll enter the Vatican Museums to start exploring. Follow an itinerary centered on the museum's most important regions, featuring treasures of art from across the centuries.

Your guide will lead you to some of the museums’ highlights from the papal collection at the Vatican Museums' kilometers of galleries, explain everything along the way.

The Cortile della Pigna (Pine Cone Courtyard) will be the next stop, where you can view the fountain of a pine cone that previously stood near the Temple of Isis. The octagonal courtyard of the Cortile Ottagono is a sight to see.

Your trip will continue to the 40 frescoed maps on the walls of the Gallery of Maps, the hanging Renaissance artworks at the Gallery of Tapestries, and the four Raphael Rooms. Finally, at the Sistine Chapel, marvel at Michelangelo's fresco, "The Creation of Adam."

At the end of your guided visit, your guide will lead you to St. Peter's Basilica, via a route that will let you avoid waiting in the lines. Here, you can finish your day exploring the basilica freely.