Special Breakfast at the Vatican with Early Entry to Museums and Sistine Chapel (VIP Tour)

You’ll explore the Vatican Museums prior to they open to the general public so you can appreciate well-known views like the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms in a more intimate environment prior to completed with skip-the-line accessibility to St Peter’s Basilica with a scheduled entrance. When booking, pick from two alternatives: breakfast in the Pinecone Courtyard with a Vatican tour limited to 16 individuals or breakfast in the Vatican cafeteria with a Vatican tour plus a coach tour of bordering Vatican City and the Vatican gardens, restricted to 25 individuals.

Vatican City

Following the fall of the Papal States and the growth of the movement for unity in Italy, the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Italian State was peacefully ratified with the signing, by Pope Pius XI and Benito Mussolini, of the Lateran Treaty on February, 1929.

Following the Corcordat, the Vatican became an independent, sovereign state, less than half a square kilometre, the smallest state in existence. The Pope is the temporal ruler, a power he delegates to his Secretary of State. The Vatican is surrounded by a wall built by different Popes between 1550 and 1640. As an autonomous state, the Vatican has its own Governor, appointed by the Pope, its own legislature, executive and judiciary. The state also has its own postage-stamps, currency, radio station, newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano), security guards, police force and Swiss Guards.