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With this private tour, you will discover the history of the Ancient Appian Way, the Roman catacombs, and the ancient Appian Way monuments and archeological site.
Upgradable local expert tour guide option.
Pickup and Dropoff your accommodation.
Worry-Free and Safe Private Tour Experience operated only with:
• Expert Professional English-Speaking Drivers
• Selected local Expert Licensed Tour Guides (when booked)
• Welcoming by private licensed fully-insured air-conditioned comfortable Vehicles
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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With this private tour, you will discover the history of the Ancient Appian Way, the Roman catacombs, and the ancient Appian Way monuments and archeological site.
Upgradable local expert tour guide option.
Pickup and Dropoff your accommodation.
Worry-Free and Safe Private Tour Experience operated only with:
• Expert Professional English-Speaking Drivers
• Selected local Expert Licensed Tour Guides (when booked)
• Welcoming by private licensed fully-insured air-conditioned comfortable Vehicles
Visit: Via Appia Antica, Via Appia, Rome Italy
Halfday tour 3 hours in total.
You will visit one among the following Catacombs:
St. Callixtus or St. Sebastian or St. Domitilla.
Visit duration is about 1 hour.
Skip-The-Line Tickets included.
Once you get to the Catacombs you’ll start your visit inside with a small-group guided tour in your preferred language given by the Catacombs staff (available in English, French, German and Spanish).
After the Catacombs visit, with your licensed guide, you to will see:
– Ancient Appian Way
– Cecilia Metella Mausoleum (from ouside)
At the end of the tour your driver will take you back to your accommodation in Rome.
Duration: 1 minute
Visit: Catacombs of Saint Callixtus, Via Appia Antica 110, 00179 Rome Italy
Catacombs of San Callixtus (admission included):
The Crypt of the Popes, or the Catacombs of Callixtus, were built after AD 150. It takes its name from the deacon Saint Callixtus, proposed by Pope Zephyrinus in the administration of the same cemetery – on his accession as pope, he enlarged the complex, and soon it became the official one for the Roman Church. The arcades, where more than fifty martyrs and sixteen pontiffs were buried, form part of a complex graveyard that occupies 15 hectares and is around 12 miles (20 km) long.
We can change with other roman Catacombs according availiability.
Duration: 1 hour
Visit: Complesso di Capo di Bove – Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica, Via Appia Antica 222, 00178 Rome Italy
During the second century, A.D was built here baths of a rich Roman family.
Nowadays we can see here how decorated were the roman spa, with mosaics on the floor and dozens of rooms for different treatments.
Duration: 15 minutes
Visit: Via Appia Antica, Via Appia, Rome Italy
Considered the mother of all the nowadays highways, it was built in the fourth century B.C and at the end of its construction reached “Brindisium”, an ancient Roman city called today Brindisi, situated in the Puglia Region, at the bottom of Italy.
The ancient Appian way was built to connect the Roman Empire to the greeks for commercial exchanges.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, Via Appia Antica, 161, 00178 Rome Italy
The Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella is one of the symbols of the Ancient Appian Way.
Was built a few decades B.C as the tomb of Cecilia Metella, daughter of a Roman Consul, situated in the inside of the burial chamber located into the Mausoleum.
