Breakfast at the Vatican & Museum Highlights | Semi-Private Tour

Important Notice: Jubilee Year 2025
As part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, St. Peter’s Basilica may experience unexpected partial or complete closures. In the rare event that the Basilica cannot be visited, rest assured that your tour experience will remain exceptional. Your guide will seamlessly adapt the itinerary to include alternative highlights, ensuring the full duration and quality of your tour.

Enjoy an early morning semi-private tour of the Vatican Museums, which includes a delicious breakfast in the Vatican. Savor the peace and tranquility over a delicious and very special Papal breakfast in the early morning hours. Your Vatican breakfast includes morning favorites such as eggs, classic sweet pastries, delicious pancakes, and the best Italian cappuccino made with milk from the Pope’s herd of cows. After breakfast, your guide will show you the Vatican’s magnificent collections of ancient treasures, and the Renaissance wonders of Raphael and Michelangelo, ending in the majestic St. Peter’s Basilica.

• Enjoy a Papal breakfast in the Vatican in the morning hours
• Explore the highlights of the Vatican Museums with an expert guide
• Admire the magnificent collection of ancient statues like the Apollo and Laocoön
• See the amazing tapestries and frescos by Raphael
• Marvel at Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel and end in St Peter’s Basilica

Meet your expert guide bright and early outside the Vatican Museums for a semi-private tour of the Vatican collection with a delicious  Papal Breakfast. Your early entry means no waiting in any lines, and you’ll enjoy the calm and quiet of the courtyard before most other visitors arrive.

Your breakfast is a true feast! A magnificent selection of eggs, pancakes, pastries, juices, coffee – the works. Your guide will tell you about the special treats, made exclusively for the Vatican – and the origin of the milk (yes – direct from the papal herd of cows, or as we like to call them, the holy cows). After an hour for breakfast, your guide will take you and your small group of  six people, through the Vatican Museums – stopping to admire the amazing, priceless collection of ancient statuary created over two thousand years ago.

You’ll see the Belvedere Courtyard with the famous Apollo and Laocoon statues, the vast porphyry bathtub that purportedly belonged to Emperor Nero, the frescoed ceilings, and well-preserved statues of the deities Diana of Ephesus and the young Bacchus in the Gallery of the Candelabra. You’ll be able to see the exquisite details on the Raphael tapestries and be wowed by the opulent gallery of maps.

Learn about the life and talent of Raphael in the rooms he painted for the Warrior Pope Julius II, and then walk down through the Borgia apartments to the piece de resistance – the Sistine Chapel. Here you’ll be able to wonder at the dazzling frescoes on the Ceiling and Last Judgement by the one and only Michelangelo.

Lastly, enjoy the exclusive exit from the Chapel, reserved for guided tours that leads straight to the magnificent St Peter’s Basilica – the largest church in the world, built atop the grave of St Peter, the first pope, and filled with awe-inspiring treasures from Bernini’s Baldachino to the mosaics on the dome – designed by Michelangelo. End inside to continue exploring at your own leisure, or let your guide show you out.

• Early morning Vatican tour
• Papal breakfast
• Fully guided experience
• Vatican Highlights
• Raphael Rooms
• Sistine Chapel
• Saint Peter's Basilica & Square

• Places of worship have strict dress code requirements for entry. All participants are required to have shoulders and knees covered (no tank tops or short dresses) to enter.
• Vatican management maintains the right to delay the opening of the Sistine Chapel for religious reasons, in this case the guide will modify the itinerary and extend your visit of the museums to ensure you make the most of your time before access to the Sistine Chapel is permitted.
• There is no photography allowed in the Sistine chapel, and all other artwork can only be photographed without flash.
• St. Peter’s Basilica is an active church and can be closed unexpectedly for liturgical ceremonies. If closed, the time inside the Vatican Museums will be extended.
• Saint Peter’s Basilica is closed on most Wednesdays mornings due to the weekly Papal Audience. If you book this tour for a Wednesday the time inside the Vatican Museums will be extended.
• Please be aware that the Sistine Chapel is a Holy Place and talking during your visit inside is strictly forbidden, therefore your guide will give you an explanation of the Sistine Chapel beforehand during your tour, in order to give you a comprehensive explanation before entering the chapel.
• Backpacks are not permitted in the Museum.
• ABOUT OUR 6 PEOPLE SMALL GROUP POLICY
  When you book a Livtours Semi-Private Tour, you are guaranteed one tour guide per group of 6 people. Please bear in mind though that in order to accommodate traveling families and friends, we do on rare occasion make the exception of adding an additional one to two guests in order not to split groups who are traveling together. On that same note, you may find yourself on tour with less than six people. As we accept bookings in multiples of six, math doesn’t always work in our favor to help accommodate individual travelers and their families when on the same tour, so we hope you understand and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
•  Everyone in your group, regardless of age, needs a government issued ID to enter the Vatican Museums.

All LivTours Semi-Private Group Tours are limited to 6 guests per tour guide. Our commitment to maintaining our uniquely tiny group sizes can sometimes be a little tricky, mathematically speaking. For example, we want to ensure that traveling families and friends can tour together so on rare occasions we may add one or two guests in order to not split groups. On that same note, you may also find yourself on tour with less than six people! We thank you for your understanding and flexibility.

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