Audio Guide Details
- Duration
- 3 to 8 hours
- Product Type
- Audio Guide
- Venues
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- St. Peter's Basilica
- Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
- Castel Sant'Angelo
Preview
Vatican All-Access Audio Guide Bundle
The Origins of the Vatican
Part Tomb, Part Castle, Part Palace
Delve into Michelangelo's deep connection with St. Peter's Basilica
Audio Guide Description
Experience Rome's most important museum, church, and tomb-turned-palace at your own pace with local experts in your ear. Download your audio guides ahead of time to listen offline on your iPhone or Android device, using your own headphones. With up to 8 hours of stories to explore, you are free to tailor the experience to your own interests and make the most of your time.
Whether you're an art lover, a history buff, or a curious traveler, you'll come away from your time in and around Vatican City with a broader perspective on Rome's long and complex history, and with details and anecdotes you won't read in guidebooks. Save $15 by bundling all three Vatican audio guides.
Vatican Museums tickets and Castel Sant'Angelo tickets are sold separately on the venues' official websites.
Whether you're an art lover, a history buff, or a curious traveler, you'll come away from your time in and around Vatican City with a broader perspective on Rome's long and complex history, and with details and anecdotes you won't read in guidebooks. Save $15 by bundling all three Vatican audio guides.
Vatican Museums tickets and Castel Sant'Angelo tickets are sold separately on the venues' official websites.
In the Vatican Museums, art historians Cecilia Martini, Jeannette Pena, and Valentina Ansuini will guide you through the masterpieces of the Vatican museums including Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Raphael's School of Athens, antiquities like the Belvedere Torso and Laocöon and works by everyone from Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Matisse. If you'd like to dig deeper, join Egyptologist Giulia Pagliari and art historian Theresa Potenza to illuminate how Rome was influenced by the Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans. Together, these local experts will guide you through the museum's vast collections while focusing your attention on the pieces, people, and stories that changed history. Along the way, you'll learn about the complex relationship between art, politics, and power throughout the long history of the Catholic Church.
At St. Peter's Basilica, Valentina Ansuini will lead you through the world's largest and most important Catholic Church, pointing out the groundbreaking architecture, holy shrines, and unique art inside. If you're ambitious enough to climb the dome, professor Frank Dabell will open your eyes to the structure as you climb and the panoramic view when you reach the top.
The Rome Jubilee (Dec 24, 2024 - Dec 14, 2025) may impact availability for visits in St. Peter's Basilica with short notice. You can find the most up-to-date schedule of events and closures here.
At Castel Sant'Angelo, archaeologist Philip Ditchfield will unlock the 2,000-year-old castle’s history, from safe rooms to centuries-old art, and trace its development from Emperor Hadrian's Tomb to a medieval stronghold to a palace and refuge for Popes through the centuries.
At St. Peter's Basilica, Valentina Ansuini will lead you through the world's largest and most important Catholic Church, pointing out the groundbreaking architecture, holy shrines, and unique art inside. If you're ambitious enough to climb the dome, professor Frank Dabell will open your eyes to the structure as you climb and the panoramic view when you reach the top.
The Rome Jubilee (Dec 24, 2024 - Dec 14, 2025) may impact availability for visits in St. Peter's Basilica with short notice. You can find the most up-to-date schedule of events and closures here.
At Castel Sant'Angelo, archaeologist Philip Ditchfield will unlock the 2,000-year-old castle’s history, from safe rooms to centuries-old art, and trace its development from Emperor Hadrian's Tomb to a medieval stronghold to a palace and refuge for Popes through the centuries.
Experts
Once you complete your purchase, you will receive a voucher code for your Audio Guide. You must download the Voicemap app and enter the code.
- Install VoiceMap from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Create an account
- Select Tour Codes from the menu, then select Enter Codes
- Enter your Voucher Code (you'll receive one for each audio guide in the bundle)
- Select Download Now
Yes! All of our audio guides have the option to turn on closed captioning should you have difficulty hearing the expert.
Audio guides range in length from 1 hour to up to 6 hours. This complete collection contains 15 hours of stories in total.
You are welcome to listen together with friends or family, but each person listening to the guide on their own device will need to purchase the audio guide individually.
Once you purchase an audio guide, you are welcome to listen to it as many times as you would like. Your access to a purchased audio guide does not expire.
Sales for recorded audio guides are final upon purchase. Please contact us at digital@contexttravel.com if you have any questions or concerns about your purchase.
Absolutely! Gift cards can be purchased here. Gift cards are good for 365 days from the date of purchase.
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the tour of the Vatican by Giuseppe was fantastic. so informative and enjoyable. would highly recommend. did the some tour several years ago and that is why I love context since their guides are so knowledgable.
Elissa
May. 17, 2024