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About this tour

The largest church ever built, and the tomb beneath it.

Walk the length of Christendom's grandest interior — 120 years in the making, and the work of Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo and Bernini in turn. From the Pietà carved by a 24-year-old to the bronze baldachin over the tomb of St. Peter, and up into the dome that crowns the Vatican.

What you'll hear

  • Michelangelo's Pietà — carved at 24, and the only work he ever signed
  • Bernini's baldachin over the Confessio and the tomb of St. Peter
  • The Chair of St. Peter, ablaze in the apse
  • Climbing the dome, and what Michelangelo never lived to see finished
  • The Vatican Grottoes and the papal tombs below
  • The Chapel of the Most Holy Sacrament, the baptismal font and the Holy Door