Saint Peter’s Basilica tickets and tours
Enjoy a visit to St. Peter’s in full freedom and at your own pace using your own mobile phone or tablet. With your guaranteed reserved entra...
Duration
1 hour
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English
Benefit from skip-the-line access to some of the Vatican's top attractions on this 2,5-hour guided tour. Admire the beautiful Vatican Museum...
Duration
2 hours, 30 minutes
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English
The OMNIA Rome card is your key to the Eternal City, providing access to its greatest attractions and transport between them. You’ll jump qu...
Duration
3 days
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English
You’ll enjoy a unique experience while all is still silent and the throngs of tourists have yet to arrive. Walk through the Vatican corridor...
Duration
5 hours
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English
This tour includes a guided visit of two of the best examples of the stratifications of Rome and the rise in levels that characterize the Ur...
Duration
3 hours
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English
Those with limited time to explore the Vatican can't miss the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. Until now, an express visit for these...
Duration
2 hours
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English
Enjoy a professional guided tour of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. With this tour, you'll have priority a...
Duration
3 hours
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English
This is the tour for people who want to see everything and get the total Vatican experience. With an expert guide, you’ll spend three hours ...
Duration
3 hours, 30 minutes
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English
Explore Rome at your own pace with this 24 or 48-hour hop-on hop-off City Sightseeing bus! Jump on and off anywhere you please to visit famo...
Duration
2 days
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English
Discover the secrets of one of the greatest wonders of the Renaissance and admire Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Pietà, and some of Bernini...
Duration
1 hour
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English
Our Sistine Chapel Express & St. Peter’s Basilica Tour is one of the best ways to experience the Vatican’s two busiest attractions without t...
Duration
2 hours
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English
Get a guaranteed admission at the Papal Audience in either St. Peter's Square or Nervi Hall. Experience seeing Pope Francis and listening hi...
Duration
8 hours
Available in:
English
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The inside story
As the symbol and heart of Christianity, Saint Peter’s Basilica is one of the largest Catholic churches in the world. Its gigantic size boasts a length of 730 feet, a width of 500 feet, a height of 452 feet and a dome diameter of 137 feet. The total area of the basilica covers 22,000 square meters and it can hold over 20.000 people. Inside you can admire 11 chapels, 45 altars and 10,000 square meters of mosaics, as well as a series of invaluable art masterpieces. Beyond the numbers, the symbolic value of the Basilica is very strong and attracts an impressive number of pilgrims from all over the world who buy tickets to get into St. Peter's.
According to an ancient city use, the church stands on the ruins of a Roman necropolis, on the site where St. Peter was probably buried around 67 AD. In 320, Constantine decided to build a basilica here by burying the Roman necropolis.
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