Wheelchair users can have a difficult time accessing some of Rome’s wonderful sights.   However, you can certainly enjoy the wonders of the Vatican and Sistine Chapel with this specially designed tour.  No waiting in queues and headsets are provided so that you can clearly hear everything the guide has to tell you.  Your wheelchair-friendly tour begins when you meet your guide by the Vatican museums to begin a tour of the magnificent artworks housed inside.

The tour begins at the famous Pigna (Pineapple) Courtyard.  Crossing this you head to the Pio Cristiano Museum where the Galleries of Tapestries and Geographic Maps are situated.  The latter houses one of the world’s most significant displays of Renaissance maps. 

Painted in the early 1500s by the young artist for Pope Julius II here you will find two of Raphael’s most famous masterpieces, the Parnassus and The School of Athens. The final port of call on this wonderful tour is the Sistine Chapel.  No talking is allowed inside so before you enter your guide will tell you all about Michelangelo’s famous frescoes depicting The Last Judgment as well as those of Botticelli that adorn the walls of this magnificent chapel.