Roma Trip Overview
The open-top double-decker bus provides fantastic views and a great atmosphere to enjoy Rome’s charm. From the iconic Colosseum and the famous Spanish Steps to the stunning Vaticans’ architecture. The city’s history and majestic architecture will take your breath away. This fully narrated audio tour allows you to discover over 10 locations throughout the city with daily departures from the starting point at the Termini Railway Station. Guests may also join the tour from any of the stops on the route. The Big Bus Rome sightseeing tour offers a recorded commentary in your choice of either English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, and Portuguese. The commentary is available through complimentary earphones that you will receive when you board the bus. You can choose fantastic digital self-guided walking tours to also experience the Eternal city on foot.
Additional Info
Duration: 1 hour
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Hop-on Hop-off Tours
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The open-top double-decker bus provides fantastic views and a great atmosphere to enjoy Rome’s charm. From the iconic Colosseum and the famous Spanish Steps to the stunning Vaticans’ architecture. The city’s history and majestic architecture will take your breath away. This fully narrated audio tour allows you to discover over 10 locations throughout the city with daily departures from the starting point at the Termini Railway Station. Guests may also join the tour from any of the stops on the route. The Big Bus Rome sightseeing tour offers a recorded commentary in your choice of either English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, and Portuguese. The commentary is available through complimentary earphones that you will receive when you board the bus. You can choose fantastic digital self-guided walking tours to also experience the Eternal city on foot.
Itinerary
Termini Railway Station- Piazza dei Cinquecento
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Piazza dei Cinquecento – Diocletian Baths, the largest thermal baths in ancient Rome, built between 298 and 306 AD In addition to traditional environments, included tubs with water at different temperatures: calidarium, frigidarium and tepidarium. Today it’s one of the four venues of the Roman National Museum.
Piazza della Repubblica / Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri / Teatro dell’Opera di Roma / National Roman Museum – The Baths of Diocletian
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).
Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore- Piazza dell’Esquilino
Route Duration: 1 hour
- P.za dell’Esquilino, 14 – The Oppio Hill is one of the two highpoints of the Esquiline along with the Cispio, where S. Maria Maggiore Basil stands. In ancient Rome, common people had their houses on its slopes, whilst on top there lived the nobility, including the Domus Aurea. When Emperor Nero died this site was buried and the baths of Tito and Trajan were built upon it.
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore / Parco di Colle Oppio / San Pietro in Vincoli
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Colesseum- Via San Gregorio
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Via di San Gregorio – The area of the Roman Forum was originally a marshland and was reclaimed through one of the earliest urban works of Ancient Rome: the Cloaca maxima. In the Forum area are gathered almost all the public and sacred buildings of Republican Rome. The oldest Roman temples such as the Saturn or Dioscuri and basilicas such as the Giulia and the Emilia.
Colosseum / Roman Forum / Arco di Costantino / Arco di Tito
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Circo Massimo- Piazzale Ugo La Malfa
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Belvedere Romolo e Remo – S. Maria Trastevere church was probably the first official place of Christian worship built in Rome, certainly the first dedicated to the cult of the Virgin Mary. According to legend, the church was erected by S. Giulio I in 340 on the oratory founded by Pope Callisto I in the third century.
Circus of Maxentius / Piazza della Bocca della Verita / Tempio di Vesta / Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere / Tempio Maggiore di Roma
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Piazza Venezia-Via Di Teatro Marcello
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Via del Teatro di Marcello, 32 – The Altare della Patria was the work of Trajan Apollodoro, who was an architect and military engineer. It was him who cut the mountainous tract that united the Campidoglio to the Quirinale, opening a passage to Campo Marzio. The various buildings that make up the Trajan Markets. The choice to associate the bottom of the activity directly with the Forum, while at the top it was devoted to management and administrative.
Piazza Venezia / Ancient City / Piazza del Campidoglio / Teatro di Marcello / Colonna Traiana / Mercati di Traiano – Museo dei Fori Imperiali / Navona / Pantheon / Campo de’ Fiori
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Vatican -Lungotevere Tor di Nona
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Lungotevere Tor di Nona, 7 – Castel Sant’Angelo is a mausoleum, which was designed by the Emperor Adriano as his tomb and that for his successors. Nicknamed a ‘small pathway’ as it offered a direct passage to the Vatican walls allowing the head of the Church to take refuge if needed. It’s strategic importance emerged during the darkest and most painful times for Rome and the Church, the castle was used as a refuge during the Sack of Rome.
St. Peter’s Basilica / Sistine Chapel / Castel Sant’Angelo / Piazza Navona
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Spanish Steps-Via Ludovisi
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Via Ludovisi, 49 – Villa Borghese – Via Ludovisi, in front of n°49. Quod non facerunt Barberini. The Palazzo Barberini complex with its immense gardens characterizes the rise of a papal family. Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) main concern was to build a magnificent home for his family near the Quirinal hill. At the time it was the headquarters of the pontifical government, whereas today it is the seat of the National Gallery of Ancient Art.
Villa Borghese Gardens / Ludovisi / Via Veneto / Art Gallery Roma / Bioparco di Roma / Piazza di Spagna / Trinita dei Monti
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
Barberini Square/Fontana di Trevi- Via Barberini
Route Duration: 1 hour
- Via Barberini, 14 – Piazza Barberini rises between the Quirinale Hill and the Salti Gardens and is located at the top of the hill. It takes its name from Palazzo Barberini that overlooks the right and the famous National Gallery of Ancient Art that hosts countless works of art. from this stop-8 you can reach “”TREVI FOUNTAIN”” by foot to visit.
Piazza Barberini / Trevi Fountain / Galleria Borghese / Palazzo Barberini / Quirinale Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale)
Operates: Travelers spend time each stops as long as they want it depends on which package or validity they booked. the bus will be run every day from the terminal (Big Bus Tours Rome operates from Friday to Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm).Bus Frequency: every 25 minutes.
