Colosseum & Roman Forum: Icon of Rome

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Step back in time as your expert guide brings to life the most important temples and shrines of the Roman Forum and leads you through the Colosseum in the footsteps of Gladiators of Rome who killed, survived or died to satisfy the masses!

Enjoy fast track entry to the vast arena, the Icon of Rome once able to seat up to 50,000 spectators. Once inside, your guide will paint an accurate picture of the Gladiator games that took place in the Roman Empire’s most impressive arena, helping you to decipher between fact, fiction, and the images portrayed by big-screen Hollywood blockbusters.

After walking around the perimeter of the Colosseum, gaze down onto the arena floor and beneath to the maze-like underground level where man and beast awaited their moment of glory or met their fateful death.

Follow your guide outside the arena and travel even further back in time as you enter the Roman Forum, the true heart of Ancient Rome with monuments dating as far back as the 7th century BC.

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Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours



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Step back in time as your expert guide brings to life the most important temples and shrines of the Roman Forum and leads you through the Colosseum in the footsteps of Gladiators of Rome who killed, survived or died to satisfy the masses!

Enjoy fast track entry to the vast arena, the Icon of Rome once able to seat up to 50,000 spectators. Once inside, your guide will paint an accurate picture of the Gladiator games that took place in the Roman Empire’s most impressive arena, helping you to decipher between fact, fiction, and the images portrayed by big-screen Hollywood blockbusters.

After walking around the perimeter of the Colosseum, gaze down onto the arena floor and beneath to the maze-like underground level where man and beast awaited their moment of glory or met their fateful death.

Follow your guide outside the arena and travel even further back in time as you enter the Roman Forum, the true heart of Ancient Rome with monuments dating as far back as the 7th century BC.

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Stop At: Via del Colosseo Largo Gaetana Agnesi, 00184 Rome Italy

We meet above Colosseo metro station on the edge of ancient Rome to prepare for a fascinating trip back in the time to the realm of Emperors, Gladiators and beasts!

Duration: 15 minutes

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

The heart and soul of ancient Rome.

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Enter the Icon of Rome and understand what it really meant to kill or be killed as a gladiator in ancient Rome.

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Wander around the birthplace of the City of Rome, where the legend of Romulus Remus came to pass, where Rome really was Caput Mundi.

Duration: 30 minutes



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