Highlights of Rome Colosseum Ancient Rome and Vatican Museum Guided Tour

Highlights of Rome Colosseum Ancient Rome and Vatican Museum Guided Tour

Enjoy this 6-hour tour to see the main features of the Eternal City! You will start with this skip-the-line group tour after meeting up with your professional art historian guide. You will visit the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill. After a short break, reach our office near Vatican City.

Once here, you meet your guide and get prepared to discover the main places and curiosity inside the Vatican Museum. You will admire one of the most significant collections of art in the world, discovering legend and secrets about the Vatican. Food and drinks are not included in this tour.

Meeting time for the Colosseum tour is 30 minutes before the scheduled starting time. Meeting point: Tour in the City Agency, via Della Polveriera 11.

Meeting time for the Vatican tour is 30 minutes before the scheduled starting time. Meeting point: via Leone IV n.6

Itinerary
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Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy

Visit Rome's symbolic monument with a tour that makes it easy and fun for all ages. An art and archaeology expert will lead you during this trip.

Learn about the spectacular games and bloody battles that were held inside. Hear about the techniques of construction invented by the Romans, the incredible ability of the gladiators, the violent fighting between exotic animals, and the high level of technology achieved by Roman engineers to built the Colosseum.

Visit the first and second tiers. Learn about the trapdoors and all the mechanisms used to animate the games on the Arena.
You will also listen to the story about sea-battles, executions, and the excitement of the spectators attending the most spectacular, fantastic, and expensive games in human history.

Duration: 1 minute

Stop At: Roman Forum, Largo della Salara Vecchia 5/6, 00186 Rome Italy

You will then visit the Roman Forum. Here you find one of the most important archaeological areas in the world with some of Ancient Rome's most evocative ruins, including the Temple of Julius Caesar, Arch of Titus, House of the Vestal Virgins, Senate House and Basilica of Maxentius. Admire the Roman Forum's Sacred Way, the triumphal road where the Centurions of Caesar marched after their return from countless battles and conquests.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Palatine Hill, Piazza Santa Maria Nova, 53, 00186 Rome Italy

After you walk through Palatine Hill, explore the site of an older settlement from the 9th century BC.

Admire the incredible frescoes in the House of Augustus and the Hippodrome, an elliptical sunken garden from the Palace of Domitian. Here, enjoy an impressive view of the Circus Maximus and the valley of the Roman Forum. Learn about the legend of Romulus and Remus, the abandoned brothers raised by a wolf who fought each other for power and control.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: St. Peter's Square, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

After your Ancient Rome guided tour, take a little break and then reach, on your own, our office near the Vatican City.

Once here and after your check-in, get prepared to start your experience inside the Vatican Museum beginning with a short introduction on the Vatican City and Vatican History

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy

Discover the treasures hosted by one of the largest and most-visited museums of the world enriched by a considerable number of masterpieces collected through time.

Taking a spectacular big spiral staircase, you will be introduced to the impressive greatness of the Vatican Museum.

Admire the best of the ancient world visiting the Greek and Roman sculpture section. A collection of classical art masterpieces where admire the beauty of several sculpture groups, for example, the statue of Laocoön and His Sons that is one of the most famous ancient sculptures.

Pass by the Chandelier Gallery, named by the several marble chandelier decorating this section.

Be astonished by the elegant Tapestry gallery, wallpapered by the most beautiful tapestry worldwide, realized by Raphael's disciples.

Visit the Maps Gallery, a comprehensive exhibition of maps representing Italy as cartographer saw it in 1581.

Enjoy a spectacular panoramic view of the Vatican Garden.

and much more.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy

Admire the major representatives of Italian art such as Leonardo, Perugino, Beato Angelico, and many more

Towards the end of this tour, you will visit the beautiful Sistine Chapel to admire Michelangelo’s masterpiece: The Last Judgement.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

You will visit the Basilica at your leisure, without the guide. Inside, you can admire some Baroque masterpieces and the breathtaking Pietà by Michelangelo. You can also enjoy a moment of reflection in the Vatican caves.

Duration: 10 minutes