Skip the Line St Peters Basilica, Papal Tombs & Dome Guided Tour

Meeting point

Where

Once you book, we organize everything. Just show up at the office (VIA GERMANICO, 16) at the correct time (Please arrive 15 minutes before your booked departure time) where your guide will meet you with your ticket to skip the line and enter the Basilica. · Open in Google Maps

Departure

09:00, 11:00, 14:00, daily except Sun; scheduled year-round (operator schedule, seats confirmed at checkout)

Return

You will end the tour inside St.Peter's Basilica. You will then exit into St.Peter's Square.

Pickup

No hotel pickup: everyone meets at the start point

Operator

Maya Tours; booking and payment are completed on Viator

1. St. Peter's Square

   St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), located in Vatican City in front of St. Peter's Basilica, is a massive, iconic Baroque plaza designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667. Featuring an elliptical design with massive colonnades representing the "embrace" of the Church, it holds over 300,000 people and features a central Egyptian obelisk.

   Pass by, no stop
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   St. Peter's Basilica

   The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. St. Peter's is famous as a place of pilgrimage and for its liturgical functions. The pope presides at a number of liturgies throughout the year both within the basilica or the adjoining St. Peter's Square; these liturgies draw audiences numbering from 15,000 to over 80,000 people.

   1h 30m · Admission included

About this tour, from the operator