Take this workout with a difference as you climb to the top of St. Peter’s Basilica. In a small group, get an up-close look inside the dome with a guide and then start your solo climb to the highest point in the Vatican.

Your expert English-speaking guide will take you from St. Peter’s Square to the entrance of the dome, where the lift will bring you up to the first level. Here you’ll be inside the basilica, up close to the mosaics with light streaming in through Michelangelo’s windows and looking down on Bernini’s canopy.

Leaving your guide, you'll power through the 320 steps to the top. Whether you race for the top or take it slow, the views that wait for you are incredible. You will see the Vatican City as never before. Very few have seen it like this. Along with the Vatican Gardens, you may see the Colosseum and as far out as Villa Borghese. Soak it up and spend as much time as you want at the highest point of the Christian world.

A bonus to your climb is the fact that you get right into the basilica when you descend. No long lines, no closed doors, no waiting guards. You go straight in to discover the heart of the Christian world, where your guide will be waiting to show you the treasures of St. Peter’s before taking you deep into the Vatican Crypts to see the sarcophagi of the popes.