Take a small group walking tour of the Vatican Museums and St Peter’s Basilica, and jump the queue by booking ahead. Numbers are limited to a maximum of 20 people on this small group walking tour, ensuring you’ll receive personalized attention from your guide. And by booking ahead, you won’t waste any time waiting in line!

Your knowledgeable guide will escort you into the Vatican Museums to explore the world’s most extensive collection of art. Brilliantly decorated and lined with masterpieces, the museums are brimming with treasures and history. Your guide will lead you through the 2000 rooms that stretch over almost nine miles, and share the stories and secrets contained within the Vatican’s walls.

Highlights of the museums are Michelangelo’s famous Creation of Adam fresco in the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms. After taking in the Vatican Museums, you will encounter another of Michelangelo’s masterpieces, La Pieta, in St Peter’s Basilica. For a fascinating finish to your small group guided walking tour, stop to admire magnificent St Peter’s Square, as your guide points out Bernini’s ingenious use of optical illusion.

Do you want to skip the line AND the crowds too?
Upgrade to the 8:10am tour and not only will you skip the long lines (which can last up to two hours!) to enter the Vatican Museums but gain access as soon as the doors open – before the general public step foot inside! Tours are arranged exclusively for our guests and groups never exceed 8 people in total. No upgrades available on Wednesday.

Ecstasy of Santa Teresa - Santa Maria Della Vittoria

Unravel Rome’s secrets on the ‘Angels and Demons’ morning tour, inspired by the novel by Dan Brown. You’ll take an incredible journey into the heart of the Eternal City to decode the secret messages of the Illuminati, one of the most influential secret societies in history. Numbers are limited to a maximum of 25 people on this small group walking tour, ensuring you’ll receive personalized attention from your guide.

Not just for fans of Dan Brown, this unique tour takes you to some of the most beautiful piazzas in Rome, as well as lesser known sites away from the tourist trail where pagan symbolism and Christianity intermingle.

Fueled by a shared passion for Rome, history and Dan Brown’s famous novel Angels and Demons, your talented tour guide will take you to the enigmatic sights mentioned in the novel, and reveal so much more about the mesmerizing city of Rome. You’ll discover a hidden passage unused for centuries, and learn the secrets of the Illuminati and the Four Altars of Science, representing the four elements of earth, air, fire and water.

Bridge of the Angels

Highlights on the morning tour include:

• St Maria del Popolo Church
• St Peter’s Square
• St Maria della Vittoria Church
• Pantheon
• Piazza Navona
• Castel Sant’Angelo
• Church of Illumination to glimpse the secret passage connecting the Vatican to notorious Castel Sant’ Angelo

As you search for the secrets scattered throughout Rome by the twin heads of the Illuminati, Bernini and Galileo, you’ll visit some of Rome’s most beautiful sites to breathe the air of intrigue, mystery and revelation.