Enjoy the skip-the-line ticket for the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel combined with a delicious aperitif in the beautiful setting of the Pinecone Courtyard.
The Vatican Museums are one of the most prestigious and fascinating cultural destinations in the world. The collections gathered over the years by successive popes offer a unique journey through centuries of art, history and spirituality. Inside the Vatican Museums you can admire works of art by some of the greatest masters in history: the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, created by the genius of Michelangelo, Raphael Rooms, the Gallery of Maps, the Pio Clementino Museum, the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Chiaramonti Museum and the Pinacoteca containing works by artists such as Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto and Perugino, just to give some example.
Complete your experience with a delicious aperitif at the Pinecone Courtyard. Your aperitif includes: 1 cocktail or soft drinks, still or sparking water, red pizzette, selection of cheeses and cold cuts, Capressin finger, Porchetta di Ariccia with homemade bread, rice, potato croquettes, cous cous à la Méditerranée.
Don't miss to admire the other important sculpture in the courtyard: the "Sphere Within Sphere” by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, donated to the Vatican Museums in 1990. Pomodoro’s circular sphere has a mechanism inside that slowly rotates with the wind.
