Roma Trip Overview
Discover the best of Rome with this exclusive 2 days guided tour! Go back in time and learn about one of the most significant civilizations ever with the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum guided tour.
Take a small break (about 1hr) and then come back to our office for an in-depth experience in one of the Catacombs on the Ancient Appian Way. Descending into a complex network of underground tunnels, among the longest in the world, you’ll marvel at ancient frescoes, crypts, mausoleums. You’ll also find the burial of famous people like popes, martyrs and, according to legends, even some apostles. The catacombs that we’ll visit (San Calisto, San Sebastiano, or Santa Domitilla) will change depending on the day.
Continue your experience on the very next day with the Vatican Museum Tour. Explore one of the most extraordinary collections of art in the world; pause in the Sistine Chapel and admire Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
Discover the best of Rome with this exclusive 2 days guided tour! Go back in time and learn about one of the most significant civilizations ever with the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum guided tour.
Take a small break (about 1hr) and then come back to our office for an in-depth experience in one of the Catacombs on the Ancient Appian Way. Descending into a complex network of underground tunnels, among the longest in the world, you’ll marvel at ancient frescoes, crypts, mausoleums. You’ll also find the burial of famous people like popes, martyrs and, according to legends, even some apostles. The catacombs that we’ll visit (San Calisto, San Sebastiano, or Santa Domitilla) will change depending on the day.
Continue your experience on the very next day with the Vatican Museum Tour. Explore one of the most extraordinary collections of art in the world; pause in the Sistine Chapel and admire Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
Itinerary
Day 1: COLOSSEUM, ROMAN FORUM, PALATINE HILL AND APPIAN WAY CATACOMBS
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. Learn about the amphitheater’s history from a guide with an art and archaeology background.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Roman Forum, Largo della Salara Vecchia 5/6, 00186 Rome Italy
You will then, visit the Roman Forum. This is 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.
After the tour take 1-hour break and then come back to our office in via della Polveriera at 1:45 pm
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica, Piazza delle Finanze 1, 00185 Rome Italy
Starting, with a small group, from our travel agency, near the Colosseum, you will be comfortably transported on an air-conditioned vehicle, in one of the most interesting and visited places in Rome, the “catacombs” on the Via Appia Antica.
Walk along the majestic Aurelian Walls and come to the archaeological area of the Via Appia Antica, immersed in the green Roman countryside, you will descend into the ancient world of the Catacombs, a complex network of underground tunnels among the longest in the world, which occupies an area of about fifteen hectares, consisting of about 60 kilometers of tunnels on several levels. The catacombs that we will visit (San Calisto, San Sebastiano or Santa Domitilla), for your tour will change depending on the day, but from where we go, you will have the opportunity to see ancient frescoes, crypts rich in inscriptions carved in the walls, niches with still remains of skeletons, small mausoleums, sarcophagi, tombs and small chapels that still today, after about 2000 years, are still used to celebrate religious rites.
Here you will find the burial of famous people like popes, martyrs and, according to legends, even some apostles.
After the tour, back in the sunlight, your driver will take you back to the original starting point in Via Della Polveriera.
Duration: 2 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: VATICAN MUSEUM
Stop At: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
Introduction on the Vatican City and Vatican History while entering into the Museum.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
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.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
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: 45 minutes
Pass By: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
After the tour, enjoy privileged access to St. Peter’s Basilica.
Note: WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO VISIT THE BASILICA DURING RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS AND CEREMONIES (Audiences, Beatifications, Masses of the POPE). The Basilica is often subject to sudden closures. In these cases it is not possible to guarantee access to the Basilica.
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
